The Canadian Space Agency has canceled a contract it awarded last year to Spire Global to construct a fleet of wildfire-monitoring smallsats.

A spool of fibre optic cable has done what years of attrition could not: it has exposed a structural blind spot in one of the most heavily instrumented air defence networks on Earth. Hezbollah’s deployment of wire-guided first-person view drones across southern Lebanon has forced Israeli ground troops to defend themselves with assault rifles and […]

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To mark the first anniversary of the European Space Agency’s Biomass satellite, we present a selection of striking images captured over the past 12 months, revealing Earth’s forests, and much more, in new detail. In just one year, this pioneering mission has begun transforming our understanding of forest dynamics and advancing how scientists monitor the critical role forests play in regulating the global carbon cycle.

Eleven years after launch and nearly a thousand days past its Pluto encounter, New Horizons is still transmitting from beyond 60 AU. A look at what the mission found, what its extended phase is still teaching us, and why the team behind it matters as much as the spacecraft.

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