Enter ESA's Arctic Weather Satellite: a brand new prototype mission to show exactly how this can be achieved. The satellite will provide precise, short-term weather forecasts for the Arctic region.

In the 1980s satellite data showed that Arctic sea ice extended on average across nearly three million square miles at the end of summer. Since then more than a million square miles has been lost ...

Viasat, Inc. VSAT has achieved a significant milestone with the launch of the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) from Vandenberg Space Force Base. This mission, spearheaded by Heosat ...

Norway plans to build a new undersea data connection with the Arctic archipelagos of Svalbard and Jan Mayen, partly to ...

The five-year project, in cooperation with scientists from around the Arctic, aims to deliver a whole population census of the Atlantic and Laptev Walrus using satellite imagery and explore what ...

Researchers have designed an alternative, autonomous observational method to monitor the Arctic’s melting ice, which holds ...

"The country needs this system for development of the Arctic zone, the regions of Siberia and the Far East. Satellite terminals ... military and other points of view," Paramonova said.

A combination of increased microbial activity, thawing permafrost, and more frequent wildfires now means the Arctic is releasing ... ice extent in the 45-year satellite record.

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The European Space Agency (ESA), in collaboration with the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), is setting up an Arctic Satellite Calibration and Validation Centre in Sodankylä, Lapland. The centre ...