Last week, the White House allocated a $25.4 billion budget to NASA for the 2025 financial year, which runs from the 1st October 2024 to 30th September 2025, and this includes its Earth Observation ambitions. This represents $2.3 billion less than … Continue reading
SpaceX’s next rideshare mission for small satellites, Transporter 10, is expected to take off later this week – with the launch currently scheduled for the 4th March from the Vandenberg Space Force Base. While the final payload manifest for the … Continue reading
This week we’re looking at either end of the life of a satellite. Firstly, an announcement from NOAA on plans to extend the mission of three of their satellites rather than decommissioning them, plus the latest launches from China. Extending … Continue reading
The Earth Observation (EO) sector has been active this week with new contracts, agreements, and satellite launches. TRUTHS This week, two contracts for the next phase of the European Space Agency’s Traceable Radiometry Underpinning Terrestrial- and Helio-Studies mission, known as … Continue reading
Last week, I was in the Netherlands at the International Remote Sensing for Marine Litter Workshop, which was organised by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The two-day event occurred at the European … Continue reading
An interesting new research paper, published in Nature Geoscience, has used satellite data to determine that young trees are actually more effective at capturing and storing carbon dioxide than older ones. Researchers used data from European Space Agency’s Earth Explorer … Continue reading
This week we’re looking at the latest news on Earth Observation (EO) data tools released by NASA and the latest Chinese EO satellite launches. NASA’s Earth Observation Last week NASA released the latest version of their Software Catalog, which has … Continue reading
Last week I attended the June member meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. OGC is a consortium of geospatial experts committed to improving access to geospatial information, and supporting data exchange through standards. We were … Continue reading
Last week I was in Vienna attending the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2023, alongside 15,000 other people, and it was as extensive and diverse as I remember from previous events. This is demonstrated by the organisers reporting there … Continue reading
This week three separate reports caught our attention about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is impacting the space and Earth Observation (EO) communities. This covers both upstream with AI controlling satellites, and downstream activities with data applications. China Using AI To … Continue reading
