The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) has been successfully integrated onboard NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) satellite. The VIIRS instrument, built by the Raytheon Company in El Segundo, California, is the third instrument to be integrated on the spacecraft by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colorado.

Hanja-Ri aquaculture, South Korea

This Flock 1 image, acquired on 01 March 2015, shows aquaculture off the coast of South Korea.

Fresh off the recent successful deployment of its 20-foot (6-metre) reflector antenna and associated boom arm, NASA's new Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory has successfully completed a two-day test of its science instruments.

VITO has announced that PROBA-V 100 m products are now publicly available as 1-day and 5-day syntheses from their Product Distribution Portal.

There is a potential treasure trove of scientific knowledge in the variety and amount of data collected through remote Earth observation. But the potential is only half the story - developing ways to effectively use that data is another challenge.

The UK Space Agency's next CubeSat mission, AlSat Nano, is starting to take shape, following the selection of the mission's payloads.