Space News for Saturday, March 01, 2025

Tenchijin selected as data service provider of JAXA’s ALOS-4 – SatNews

Original Publication Date: 2025-02-28 00:00

Tenchijin has been selected as a data service provider to use the PALSAR-3 observation data of Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4 “DAICHI-4”(ALOS-4) ALOS-4 observes Earth’s surface using its onboard, phased array, type L-band, synthetic aperture radar.

L3Harris + Shield AI team for autonomy breakthrough – SatNews

Original Publication Date: 2025-02-28 00:00

L3Harris and Shield AI will collaborate on a demonstration to enable an electronic warfare (EW) operation. L3Harris’ Distributed Spectrum Collaboration and Operations, or DiSCO, can detect, collect and analyze known and unknown threat signals within minutes. This specific collaboration pairs DiSCO with Shield AI’s Hivemind.

Hubble Captures New View of Colorful Veil

Original Publication Date: 2025-02-28 09:34

The Veil Nebula is situated about 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. The nebula is the remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the Sun that exploded about 10,000 years ago. Hubble images of this photogenic nebula were first taken in 1994 and 1997, and again in 2015.

NASA Uses New Technology to Understand California Wildfires

NASA's B200 King Air aircraft flew over the wildfires in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena, California. The aircraft used the c-FIRST instrument to observe the impacts of the fires in near real time. C-FIRST gathers thermal infrared images in high-resolution and other data about the terrain.