We regularly blog about the number of satellites in orbit around the Earth, and how much this has increased over the years. Our 2025 version described that around 15,000 satellites were in orbit from the almost 21,000 objects that had … Continue reading
The Space4Climate Agriculture Market Breakthrough Project Showcase, held in the offices of Geovation in London on the 26th January 2026, was the culmination of the stakeholder engagement processes we’ve undertaken over a year. The aim was to better understand the … Continue reading
Last night saw the successful launch of Sentinel-1D aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The rocket was launched just after 22:00 (CET) and was put into a sun-synchronous orbit at approximately 693 kilometres. As … Continue reading
Earlier this week we hosted a webinar titled ‘Climate Adaptation in Agronomy with Satellite Technology’ as part of the 2025 Agri-Tech Week, which is run by Agri-TechE. With almost one hundred attendees signed up it was shaping up to be … Continue reading
Three news items caught our attention this week: a first light image from the Italian Earth Observation (EO) IRIDE satellite constellation, the birth of a new wildfire detection constellation, and a reduction in the number of weather balloon launches. First … Continue reading
This week we’re looking at some of the new developments in the Earth Observation (EO) sector that have been announced over the last week, including a new acquisition, new satellite launch, new funding and new data availability! New Acquisition Neo … Continue reading
This week we’re looking at the latest developments in both satellite and aircraft remote sensing, including recent news on satellite remote sensing in China, and how aircraft overflights in England have helped create a new dataset. Satellite Remote Sensing Five … Continue reading
I spent last week in London at the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) October 2023 Open Standards Code Sprint. Or to put it another way, I spent three full days simply coding, one of my favourite ways to pass the time! … Continue reading
As 2022 ended there were Earth Observation (EO) satellite launches, and as 2023 starts there were also EO launches. It seems as the passing of a year barely makes a ripple in our industry. We’re going to start by looking … Continue reading
It is the start of an exciting few weeks for the Earth Observation (EO) satellite industry with a number of launches in the coming weeks including the delayed Oceansat-3 which we’ll talk about next week, the UK’s first satellite launch … Continue reading
