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“Space-Age Farming: The 2025 Guide to Satellites That Spot Crop Stress, Soil Moisture & Yields—Almost in Real Time”

Expert soundbites 1) What satellite crop monitoring actually measures Plant status (optical & thermal):Multispectral imagers (Sentinel‑2, Landsat, PlanetScope) quantify greenness (NDVI/EVI), chlorophyll (red‑edge indices), and canopy water (NDWI/NDMI), proxies for vigor and stress. Sentinel‑2’s unique red‑edge bands (705–783 nm) sharpen sensitivity to chlorophyll

September 22, 2025

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China’s 2030 Moonshot: The Real Plan, the Rocket Tests, and the Race with NASA

The mission architecture, in plain English China’s first crewed lunar landing is formally planned “before 2030.” The concept uses two launches of the Long March‑10: one lofts the Lanyue lander to lunar orbit, the other sends Mengzhou with the crew. The vehicles

September 17, 2025

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Inside SDA Tranche‑1: The Space ‘Mesh’ That Could Kill Hypersonics and Link Every Jet, Ship — Launches, Timelines, and What’s Next

Executive summary (as of September 16, 2025) What is Tranche‑1? (Quick primer) SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) is a layered, LEO‑based network fielded in two‑year “tranches.” Tranche‑1 (T1) adds regional persistence beyond Tranche‑0 demos: Transport Layer (T1TL) for data relay to

September 16, 2025

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Blazing Boundary: Voyager 1 Reveals a “Wall of Fire” at the Edge of Our Solar System

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has journeyed farther from Earth than any other human-made object – and in doing so, it uncovered something astonishing: a blisteringly hot “wall of fire” at the very edge of our solar system dailygalaxy.com, karmactive.com. This isn’t a

September 10, 2025

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