Envisat ("Environmental Satellite") is an inoperative Earth-observing satellite still in orbit.
We now have to decipher constantly shifting configurations of vast and rapid data flows: oscillations of the stock exchange, downloads from Earth-observing satellites, unexpected disseminations of diseases or pollutants.
BBC children's television once had every kid in Britain counting earthworms in his backyard; now the Globe project has 2,000 schools coordinating data from Earth-observing satellites every day.
The technology and lessons learned from the Nimbus missions are the heritage of most of the Earth-observing satellites NASA and NOAA have launched over the past three decades.
We'll launch a new Earth-observing satellite this Friday.
The Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder on board NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite, NPP, acquired its first low-atmosphere moisture ...
Aura is to take on a new role later in its mission, when it becomes part of a planned fleet of Earth-observing satellites flying in a formation.
Earth-observing satellites may also be launched into a sun-synchronous orbit, which is slightly retrograde.
European remote sensing satellite (ERS) was the European Space Agency's first Earth-observing satellite.
RazakSAT is an Earth-observing satellite developed in Malaysia and launched in 2009.
