Amazon rainforest fires got even worse last year
NASA documented a startling jump in ‘the most environmentally destructive types’ of fires
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Fires in the Amazon reached devastating new levels in 2020, new NASA satellite imagery shows. The space agency developed a new tool to track fires from space after Brazil’s Amazon suffered a record-breaking year of fires in 2019.
Specialized sensors on satellites collect visible and infrared imagery, which NASA uses to detect thermal anomalies basically hotspots caused by fire. Its satellites found 1.4 million of those anomalies in the Southern Amazon last year, compared to 1.1 million in 2019.
CHENNAI, Feb 20: In its first dedicated commercial mission of the newly-formed NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), the ISRO would be launch Brazil's Amazonia-1
In first mission in 2021, Isro to launch Brazilian, Indian startup satellite: All you need to know
In first mission in 2021, Isro to launch Brazilian, Indian startup satellite: All you need to know
India s space agency ISRO will launch Brazilian satellite Amazonia-1 and 20 other payloads, including one built by an Indian start-up on February 28. This will be the first space mission in 2021 by Bengaluru-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation.
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UPDATED: February 5, 2021 20:24 IST
PSLV-C51/Amazonia-1 is the first dedicated commercial mission of NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), a Government of India company under Department of Space. (File Photo: Isro/Twitter)
India s space agency ISRO will launch Brazilian satellite Amazonia-1 and 20 other payloads, including one built by an Indian start-up on February 28. This will be the first space mission in 2021 by Bengaluru-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation.
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Bengaluru, February 5
In its first space mission in 2021, India’s space agency ISRO planned to launch Brazilian satellite Amazonia-1 and 20 other payloads, including one built by a home-grown start-up, on February 28.
The launch from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota, is tentatively scheduled at 10.23 am, subject to weather conditions, Bengaluru-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation said on Friday.
PSLV-C51/Amazonia-1 is the first dedicated commercial mission of NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), a Government of India company under Department of Space.
NSIL is undertaking this mission under a commercial arrangement with Spaceflight Inc.USA.
Amazonia-1 is the optical earth observation satellite of National Institute for Space Research (INPE).
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Bengaluru, February 5
In its first space mission in 2021, India s space agency ISRO planned to launch Brazilian satellite Amazonia-1 and 20 other payloads, including one built by a home-grown start-up, on February 28.
The launch from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota, is tentatively scheduled at 10.23 am, subject to weather conditions, Bengaluru-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation said on Friday.
PSLV-C51/Amazonia-1 is the first dedicated commercial mission of NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), a Government of India company under Department of Space. NSIL is undertaking this mission under a commercial arrangement with Spaceflight Inc.USA.
Amazonia-1 is the optical earth observation satellite of National Institute for Space Research (INPE).