The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) today launched the Cartosat-3 Earth Observation (EO) satellite from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Cartosat-3 was the major payload on the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle … Continue reading
Last week the Midlands and the North of the UK was subject to a weather system with heavy and persistent rain. In fact, a weather station in Sheffield recorded its greatest ever metrological autumn rainfall of over 425 mm, breaking … Continue reading
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite has just celebrated ten years in orbit, remarkable for a satellite whose mission life was considered to be a minimum of three years. It was launched on the … Continue reading
Last week I was in Warsaw, Poland, at the 3rd General Assembly of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (often shortened to C3S) whose mission is to support European climate adaptation and mitigation policies by providing consistent and authoritative information, by … Continue reading
