NASA’s GOES satellites have provided 50 years of continuous geostationary monitoring, delivering real-time weather, environmental hazard, and space weather data to support forecasts, emergency ...

Regular followers of space news will know that when satellites or space probes reach the end of their life, they either are de-orbited in a fiery re-entry, or they stay lifeless in orbit, often in a ...

Most airplane contrails go unseen from space, yet they may drive much of aviation’s climate impact, according to new MIT ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Fifty years ago, on Oct. 24, 1975, meteorology took a monumental leap forward when GOES-1 (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite), the world’s first geostationary ...

Images from geostationary satellites alone aren’t enough to help planes avoid contrail-prone regions, MIT researchers report.

The satellite "has a history of unusual maneuvering near other satellites in geostationary orbit, which has also generated suspicions regarding its mission." When you purchase through links on our ...

Aviation's climate impact is partly due to contrails—condensation that a plane streaks across the sky when it flies through ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) constellation includes three satellites: GEO-West, GEO-Center and GEO-East. The Office of Management ...

This article originally appeared in the Jan. 20, 2020 issue of SpaceNews magazine. Manufacturers are hopeful that 2019 marked the beginning of a turnaround for geostationary satellite orders, even ...

Radio astronomy has a pollution problem. Satellites thousands of kilometers overhead, designed to broadcast communications or ...