Two bodies of the United Nations (UN) are this week calling on governments, regulators, and meteorologists to safeguard access to radio frequency spectrum essential for Earth Observation (EO). The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) made … Continue reading
I was in Edinburgh last week for the SPIE Sensors + Imaging 2026 conference. This took place over three days and is organised by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and it combines programmes on Environmental Remote Sensing … Continue reading
The latest satellite launches from BlackSky and China, together with the announcement Rocket Lab are expanding into the downstream market. BlackSky Gen3 Satellite Launch BlackSky Technology Inc. announced that its fifth Gen-3 commercial satellite captured its first image less than … Continue reading
Two European Space Agency (ESA) satellites, Sentinel-3C and FLEX, are currently scheduled to be launched on the 15th September via the Vega-C rocket from the European Spaceport in French Guiana. The two Earth Observation (EO) satellites will work together in … Continue reading
Latest Earth Observation (EO) geostationary satellite launches, firstly with the Meteosat Third Generation Imager weather satellite at the end of August, and the anticipated launch of India’s EOS-05 satellite later this week. Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite Last week, 27th … Continue reading
Last month, the United States’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the launch of a new satellite. However, this approval has provoked discussion and controversy within the space sector. The approval is for the Earendil 1 satellite, for the American company … Continue reading
This week has seen the release of the first publicly available batches of Earth Observation (EO) data from the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission, and a commercial rocket from China launching 9 satellites including several EO payloads. NISAR Data … Continue reading
Two interesting developments from India over the last week, looking at the first successful commercial rocket launch showing how the country’s private sector is getting involved in space and secondly reports showing the potential impact of this. India’s First Commercial … Continue reading
Tuesday 7th July saw the latest SpaceX rideshare mission, Transporter-17, take off when a Falcon 9 rocket took over 80 satellite payloads into orbit from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base. As usual with these rideshare missions, there were several Earth … Continue reading
Highlighting two contrasting approaches to satellite sovereignty within the Earth Observation (EO) sector this week, starting with news on the demise of Sentinel-1A and then moving onto interesting reports from Russia. Sentinel-1A Following last week’s blog about the contract for … Continue reading
