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Nanosatellites are widely used in generic applications, such as education, vegetation monitoring, natural disasters, oceanography, and specialized applications, such as disaster response, and they serve as an Internet of Things (IoT) communications platform. This paper presents a review of the latest public nanosatellite EO missions, their applications, and their propulsion systems. Furthermore, we discuss specialized applications of the nanosatellites and their use in remote sensing for EO. 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