POES satellites orbit the earth 14 times each day at an altitude of approximately 520 miles (870 km). As each orbit is made the satellite can view a 1,600 mile (2,700 km) wide area of the earth.

At a recent GIJN webinar, three experts explained how reporters can get regular, free access to high-quality satellite images ...

In the race to meet the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Earth observation (EO) satellite data is ...

Thus, each satellite functions as a “transparent network relay node ... of satellites at different altitudes, including low-Earth orbiting satellites similar to SpaceX’s Starlink system.

When NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) new Earth satellite NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) launches in coming months, it will capture images of Earth's surface so ...