Space: European satellite to step up monitoring of extreme weather

• Aug 13, 2025, 1:52 PM

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As many European countries simmer in a deadly heatwave, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) said its MetOp-SGA1 satellite will give "earlier warnings to help protect lives and property from extreme weather". The rocket Ariane 6 took off from France's Kourou space base in French Guyana, carrying the four-tonne satellite. MetOp-SGA1 was to be put into an 800 kilometre (500 mile) high orbit.

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In Singapore, the food of the future is being cooked up in a lab

• 11:23 AM

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Eggs without chickens, milk without cows, and meat without slaughter: Singapore has emerged as Asia's hub for food innovation. The city-state of six million people imports 90 percent of its food and has less than 1 percent of arable land. Now, with an am

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