San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 03, 2023 Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today successfully launched 36 SuperDove satellites, its Flock 4y, to space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Planet team has established contact with all 36 SuperDoves and has kicked off their automated commissioning process. This marks the company’s 32nd successful launch, totaling … Continue reading Planet launches 36 SuperDoves on Transporter 6 mission

San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 05, 2023 Planet Labs has announced a new, scaled structure for their Education and Research (E&R) Program, aiming to increase global accessibility to their satellite data and services. Starting today, the program offers a new packaging model with a tiered global pricing system and high-resolution SkySat data, a first for a university program in the satellite data industry. Launched in … Continue reading Planet Scales Education and Research Program

Beijing (AFP) Dec 23, 2022 China has requisitioned medical supplies production across the country as millions struggle to obtain basic drugs and testing kits in the face of a surge in Covid-19 cases. Pharmacies in major cities have been stripped bare in the wake of the Chinese government’s sudden decision to lift years of lockdowns, quarantines and mass testing. Authorities have urged those with mild … Continue reading China authorities take over medical supplies production as Covid surges

New York (AFP) Dec 20, 2022 US industrial giant 3M announced Tuesday it will phase out production of so-called “forever chemical” PFAS in light of tightening regulation connected to harmful health effects from their use. 3M will exit polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) manufacturing by the end of 2025 and discontinue use across its product portfolio under the same timeframe, moves that are expected to result in … Continue reading 3M to phase out ‘forever chemicals’ PFAS by 2025

Paris (AFP) Dec 23, 2022 Even as animals and plants face widespread extinction from human-driven causes like climate change, the natural world continues to inspire scientific discovery in unexpected ways. “Nature has spent hundreds of millions of years optimising elegant solutions to extremely complicated problems,” said Alon Gorodetsky, a biomedical engineer at the University of California, Irvine. “So if we lohttp://dlvr.it/SfrGK7 Continue reading From robot fireflies to okra plasters: 2022’s nature-inspired solutions

Chongqing, China (AFP) Dec 22, 2022 Elderly patients lined the wards of hospitals in major cities in China Thursday as the country battled a wave of Covid cases. The virus is surging across the vast Asian nation in an outbreak authorities say is impossible to track after the end of mandatory mass testing. And with cases soaring, Washington called on Beijing to share its Covid … Continue reading Elderly Covid patients fill hospital wards in China’s major cities

Hereford, United States (AFP) Dec 22, 2022 Arizona agreed Wednesday to dismantle a wall of shipping containers at the Mexican border that critics said was an expensive, ecologically damaging political stunt that did nothing to keep migrants out of the United States. The state’s Republican Governor Doug Ducey spent $90 million of taxpayers’ money lining up rusting boxes in what he said was a bid … Continue reading Arizona to remove shipping container wall on US-Mexico border

Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Dec 21, 2022 The death toll from a landslide at an unauthorised campsite in Malaysia rose to 26 after search and rescue teams on Wednesday found the body of a man in a tight embrace with his dog, officials said. Seven people are still missing after a predawn landslide on Friday hit the site located at an organic farm near the town … Continue reading Malaysia landslide toll hits 26 after man found hugging dog

Kuala Krai, Malaysia (AFP) Dec 21, 2022 At least five people were killed and more than 70,000 rushed to evacuation centres in Malaysia after monsoon-triggered floods inundated the country’s north, authorities said Wednesday. More than 31,000 people have fled their homes in Kelantan state while more than 39,000 residents have been evacuated to temporary shelters in neighbouring Terengganu after flooding began over the weekend, thehttp://dlvr.it/Sfmvrt Continue reading Five dead, more than 70,000 evacuated in Malaysia floods

Paris (ESA) Dec 22, 2022 At this time of the year, the mention of Lapland conjures up visions of Santa getting his gift-laden sleigh and nine reindeer ready to take to the skies for the most important deliveries of all. However, the skies of Lapland have witnessed something rather different recently – a big white balloon, which may not provide the immediate gratification of a … Continue reading Snowy Lapland and the white balloon