Satellites are key to tracking hurricanes and giving sufficient warning to reduce damages and loss of life. Hurricane Lane, a rare major storm in the central Pacfic, is heading towards Hawaii and is being watched by satellites in GEO as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Real-time space
NASA offers live Youtube streaming of camera views of the earth from the International Space Station: Behold, the Earth! These are live Earth views from the International Space Station from the High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment. While the experiment […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bob Zimmerman describes the what happend last month in the solar cycle’s ups and downs: Is the Sun’s strange double-peaked solar maximum finally ending? – Behind The Black Find lots more real and near real time imagery and data from space on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the payloads recently delivered to the Int. Space Station recently by the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is the High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment. It consists of cameras attached to the exterior of the station that stream views of the earth. You […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) of giant antennas used to communicate with probes to deep space now has the cool DSN Now display showing which spacecraft is currently being contacted by each antenna. There is also info on the particular spacecraft. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…