Space & Earth

Honolulu beside a calm sea in 2017. A JPL technology recently detected and confirmed a tsunami up to 45 minutes prior to detection by tide gauges in Hawaii, and it estimated the speed of the wave to be over 580 miles per hour (260 meters per second) near the coast. (Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

September 16, 2025

NASA’s GUARDIAN Tsunami Detection catches wave in real time

By Tracy Cozzens

Hurricane. (Image: Harvepino/iStock/Getty Images Plus/Getty Images)

September 12, 2025

Spire Global awarded $11.1M NOAA contract for GNSS-RO weather data

By Tracy Cozzens

September 11, 2025

EGNOS satellite upgrade strengthens European navigation services

By Jesse Khalil

Celeste becomes the name of ESA’s LEO-PNT mission, that will "mediate: between Galileo and the rest of the world. The name was announced during the celebration of 30 years of European satellite navigation, in September 2025 with two actors enacting a fictional conversation between Galileo Galilei and his imagined great granddaughter Celeste, a satellite navigation engineer working at the ESA. (Credit: ESA / M. Polo)

September 8, 2025

ESA’s Celeste LEO-PNT demonstrator mission set to launch in December

By Jesse Khalil

The Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) spacecraft is shown in an anechoic test chamber prior to electromagnetic interference and electromagnetic compatibility testing in Palm Bay, Florida. This experimental satellite is being designed, built and tested by L3Harris Technologies, and will be used by the Air Force Research Laboratory and partner organizations as part of an integrated system to conduct a one-year demonstration of advanced technologies and concepts in satellite navigation. (Credit: AFRL)

August 13, 2025

DAF launches NTS-3 Vanguard on ULA Vulcan Rocket

By Jesse Khalil

August 12, 2025

Xona secures first customers to modernize precision timekeeping

By Jesse Khalil

The NVS-02 navigation satellite being encapsulated into its payload fairing ahead of its Jan. 28 launch. (Photo: ISRO)

August 1, 2025

India’s NavIC constellation in jeopardy as majority of satellites become defunct

By Jesse Khalil

July 28, 2025

Galileo OSNMA authentication service now operational

By Jesse Khalil

For the first time, researchers at Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, quickly and efficiently measure the seafloor down to the centimeter-level using a UAV. (Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo)

July 24, 2025

Advancing earthquake prediction with a UAV

By Tracy Cozzens

July 22, 2025

GMV to develop collision avoidance service for LEO constellations

By Jesse Khalil

July 17, 2025

SES completes acquisition of Intelsat

By Tracy Cozzens

Alpha A900 approaches for deck landing. (Credit: Alpha)

July 16, 2025

Helicopter and space UAVs pave the way for autonomous systems

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