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Orbital platforms can bolster or challenge global climate change theories. Satellites have confirmed a 500,000- square-mile reduction of Arctic Sea ice since 1979.

Keep Watching the Ice

Meet the satellites bringing data to the discussion of global warming
September 2006 | By Ben Iannotta

Slight tweaks to SMART-1

Moonwhackers

Europe's SMART-1 is the first of several lunar crashes on the drawing board.
September 2006 | By Tony Reichhardt

The Rise and Fall and Rise of Iridium

Iridium's constellation of 66 comsats was a technological triumph but a business disaster-until an executive and a computer geek found salvation in the Pentagon.
September 2004 | By Craig Mellow

The brightest central object in this image of galaxy M82 is an extremely powerful source of X-ray emissions, likely a black hole.

X-Ray Eyes

The Chandra X-Ray Observatory opens the book on the high-energy universe.
March 2002 | By James S. Schultz

Terra Cognita

A new generation of satellites zooms in on a familiar planet.
March 2001 | By Tony Reichhardt

The Coldest Warriors

Tales from the corridors of an agency so secret that officially it didn't exist.
January 2000 | By William E. Burrows


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