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HydroGNSS mission scouts for water cycle variables from orbit Technology News | December 6, 2025 HydroGNSS, a UK-led pair of small satellites under ESA’s Scout programme, has reached orbit to monitor key elements…
06 Dec 2025 10:24 GMT
… designed and built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) with … funding, this UK-built satellite will play an invaluable role … terrain is frozen. The satellites will complement ESA’s SMOS … Biomass missions and NASA’s SMAP platform, adding higher revisit …
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Satellite launch will boost climate monitoring — UK Space Agency
29 Nov 2025 14:00 GMT
… technique that captures navigation-satellite signals after they bounce … to see both HydroGNSS satellites successfully launched and … environmental monitoring efforts.”
The satellites are expected to supply … missions, and NASA’s SMAP satellite, forming part of a …
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Twin HydroGNSS satellites poised for launch
12 Nov 2025 02:05 GMT
… share’ with 106 other small satellites.
The launch had been … had remained a single-satellite one.
Each satellite carries a delay … Sentinel-1 and NASA’s SMAP.”
For this mission, prime … will involve placing 108 small satellites into orbit, including multiple …
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How Satellite Imagery Drives Manufacturing Innovation
16 Sep 2025 23:40 GMT
… Both government and commercial satellite programs, such as … adopted application of recent satellite imagery, continually evolving … turn the latest satellite imagery maps into powerful … Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite helped emergency teams identify …
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A New Green Revolution in Indian Agriculture: How Satellite Remote Sensing is Quietly Transforming the Sector
16 Sep 2025 00:06 GMT
… nutrient recommendation. Powered by satellite remote sensing, the app … Space Agency, and Landsat, SMAP and MODIS from NASA) … detection is possible when satellite observations can track … Another compelling application of satellite intelligence is closing the …
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Repurposing data from NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite
20 Nov 2024 18:46 GMT
… Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite in early 2015.
… expertise in Global Navigation Satellite System-Reflectometry (GNSS- … first place. The SMAP satellite houses two instruments, … full polarimetric Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS- …
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UK leads ESA’s first scout climate mission with HydroGNSS launch
02 Dec 2025 14:12 GMT
… mission marks the inaugural satellite deployment under the European … observation sensors, the satellites collect signals reflected from … portfolio of climate-monitoring satellites. It complements ESA’ … as well as NASA’s SMAP satellite, by adding cost-efficient …
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NASA Satellite Technology Enhances Agricultural Data Collection for NASS
21 Feb 2025 17:05 GMT
… NASA) to explore how satellite technology is improving agricultural … Earth-observing satellites including Landsat, MODIS and SMAP provide critical … and SMAP monitors soil moisture levels. By combining satellite … data with NASA’s satellite technology, NASS has …
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SMAP data helps dig up dirt on unexpected droughts
13 Nov 2024 05:19 GMT
… a vision of making satellite soil moisture data equally accessible … State University, realized that SMAP data may have untapped … they ended up using SMAP surface moisture observations from 2015 … Flash drought Assessment using SMAP Hydrology. FLASH displays a …
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Satellite navigation systems enable precise global soil moisture monitoring
26 Sep 2024 13:48 GMT
… moisture retrieval using satellite navigation systems has … Satellite System (CYGNSS) constellation and the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP … terrains. Global Navigation Satellite System - Reflectometry ( … from CYGNSS and SMAP, researchers developed five …