satellite
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Nepal's foreign minister warned on Saturday of the growing threat from climate change in the Himalayas, as China offered water and satellite data after devastating floods on their shared border killed hundreds.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
They said more tankers have been leaving the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf with transponders turned off — known as “dark crossings” — with satellite coverage limited and ship-to-ship transfers increasing.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
New satellite images from Vantor Satellite Imagery show the shocking devastation along a roughly 10-mile swath of the Trishuli river stretching south from the northern border with China.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
They'll be looking at satellite images of exactly where the landslide occurred, whether any glacial lakes suddenly drained, and where the river might have become blocked, as well as data on recent rainfall.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
He broke up into gales of laughter just as the network cut his satellite feed.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
The Met Office has been working with key infrastructure operators since 2014 to try to keep us safe from those impacts, by producing forecasts using equipment on earth and satellites out in space.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Scaling the rocket is critical for most of SpaceX’s major plans, including establishing a base on the moon and putting advanced Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
The system combines EraDrive's Era-Core flight software and embedded algorithms with Starling's cameras and an onboard catalog of known satellites.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
StormWall, which involves school-bus-size satellites and a whole lot of salt, could provide an ionic “air bag” for the Earth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Venus didn’t have any moons or satellites or even a magnetic field, but it did have an atmosphere sort of similar to Earth’s, except it was super- hot—about five hundred degrees or more.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
Vocabulary lists containing satellite
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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Weather and Climate - Introductory
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The Launch of Sputnik 1
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