Several news stories caught our attention this week on how Earth Observation (EO) satellite data is being used to monitor the impacts of climate change: global warming, coral bleaching, and flamingos! Global Warming Last week the European Union’s Copernicus Climate … Continue reading
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
The latest Earth Observation (EO) satellite launches are from Russia, with the next expected launch being from Japan, and details of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) datasets publicly available from America. Leapling Russia Satellite Launch On the 29th February the Soyuz-2-1b … 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
Following last week’s blog about the deorbiting of the European Remote Sensing (ERS-2) satellite, this week we’ve got an ERS-2 update, plus a second deorbit – with Cartosat-2 returning to Earth, and finally the launch of the Indian weather satellite … Continue reading
This week we’re looking at two space debris satellite events occurring in the second half of this month, one coming down and the other going up! End of ERS-2 It is anticipated that the European Space Agency’s (ESA) second European … Continue reading
This week hopes to see the launch of NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission. It will be launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, however, the original schedule of a launch … 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
Successfully launched satellites are expected to operate for a certain period. This ends when the satellite can no longer able to perform its intended function, cannot maintain its operational altitude, or the fuel level is reaching the minimal point for … Continue reading
This week sees one of the space sector’s premier events take place, with the biennial UK Space Conference at the International Conference Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Space for Our Future The conference takes place between Tuesday and Thursday, and … Continue reading
