TOKYO (AP) — Japan successfully deployed an upgraded Earth observation satellite for disaster response and security after it was launched on a new flagship H3 rocket Monday. The H3 No. 3 rocket lifted ...

Even as Thursday’s Salzburg Envisat Symposium discussed the increasingly prominent role of Earth Observation in disaster relief, Envisat played a key part in a multinational emergency exercise taking ...

Editor's Note: This article was modified October 17, 2025. What began as a pilot program has evolved into an emerging technology investment for disaster management and preparedness in nations with ...

Japan's space agency plans to partner with private firms to enable various orbiting satellites to conduct emergency observations during natural disasters, sources familiar with the matter said ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Satellogic, a leader in sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection, is now providing satellite imaging data from its constellation to the International Charter ...

In a landmark step for global Earth observation, the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite is set to launch on July 30, 2025, aboard India’s GSLV-F16 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space ...

The International Space Station (ISS) partner agencies released a statement Wednesday on the benefits of the space station during natural disasters on Earth. Flying 250 miles above the planet and ...

China has initiated a project of building a constellation of 36 low-orbit satellites to gather information for forecasting natural disasters and monitoring urban emergencies. The project undertaken by ...

The disaster revealed important shortcomings in Haiti's overall national disaster risk management system. After the January 2010 earthquake, reducing vulnerability, improving emergency preparedness ...

Within the next 30 years, the southwest coast of Japan is expected to be hit by a magnitude 8–9 earthquake and tsunami originating in the Nankai Trough, a seafloor depression where the Philippine Sea ...

All 50 states have emergency management offices. Each one functions a bit differently from all the rest. In this Disaster Zone Podcast: Idaho Office of Emergency Management we learn from Brad Richy ...