Tag: satellites

• Space Wombats and Penguin Poop: Spying on Animals from Orbit

  [ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Penguin Spotting, and Other Cool Satellite Tricks You’d be surprised what you can see from 300 miles up For Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine: At first glance the picture…

  Matthew R. Francis

  March 28, 2018

  Smithsonian Air and Space

  birds, climate change, Earth observation, penguins, remote sensing, satellites, tigers, wildlife biology, wombats

• Yvonne Brill and the technology keeping satellites in orbit

  In a certain sense, it’s easy to keep things in orbit around Earth. However, it’s hard to keep satellites in a specific orbit, which is what matters most for communicating with them and they with us, whatever task they’re designed to perform. Thanks to the work of rocket engineer Yvonne Brill in the early 1970s,…

  Matthew R. Francis

  April 10, 2013

  Double X Science, Writing for Other Sites

  rockets, satellites, spaceflight, Yvonne Brill