Whilst we’ve been talking about the exciting things from ESA’s Living Planet, there’s been quite a number of launches, planned launches and de-orbits within the industry. To start with, on the 22nd May, India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) took … Continue reading
Last week I was invited to talk at an evening event organised by the Society for Underwater Technology (SUT), which took place at the Met Office. It was titled ‘Satellite data for marine applications’ and there was a collection of local … Continue reading
We’re in the middle of the 2019 British Science Week! It’s an annual event promoting science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) across the UK and, slightly contrary to its name runs for ten days, which this year is from the … Continue reading
On February 16th 2016, just before 6 pm, the third Sentinel of the Copernicus programme, Sentinel-3A was launched. It was joined in space by its twin, Sentinel-3B, twenty-six months later on the 25 April 2018. Both of the Sentinel-3 satellites … Continue reading
The Data.Space 2019 Conference took place in Glasgow last week, with the key messages of the event focused on new developments in the space industry, need for more transparent pricing for purchasing satellite data – an increasing need for automated … Continue reading
2018 ended with the launch of over twenty Earth Observation (EO) satellites on the 27th December, onboard the Russian Soyuz rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. Amongst its payload were: Kanopus-V 5 and 6 – two high resolution optical land observation … Continue reading
This week we’re looking back at most popular posts of the last twelve months. Question is, how many have you read? 2018 was a really successful one for our website. The number of view increased by 95% compared to last … Continue reading
The 14th Appleton Space Conference took place last week on Thursday 6th December at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory at Harwell. This annual one-day conference is an opportunity to hear the latest developments relevant to the UK Space industry. After introductions … Continue reading
Using high resolution satellite imagery to monitor animals from space was in the news this week. We’ve written about this application of remote sensing before, but this time we’re looking at new techniques for monitoring whales and mosquitoes! A team … Continue reading
Last week the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a fantastic shot of the Earth, shown on the left, from the GOES-17 satellite. The satellite was launched on the 1st March 2018 and this is the first image from … Continue reading
