This week we’re looking at the latest Earth Observation launches, the heaviest geostationary satellite ever launched, and the end of the Aeolus satellite that re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere last Friday. Earth Observation Satellite Launches On Saturday seven satellites were successfully … Continue reading
This week we have details of new satellite launches, a problem on the James Webb Space Telescope, and the impending death of the Aeolus satellite – essentially various aspects of the life cycle of an instrument or satellite. Satellite Births … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) highlighted that the global pandemic was reducing the accuracy of weather and climate forecasts. This isn’t because all the meteorological data scientists are working from home trying to run supercomputers … Continue reading
Last month was the 25th Anniversary of LITE – the Lidar In-space Technology Experiment (LITE) that was the principal payload on the Discovery Space shuttle mission STS-64, which took place between the 9th and 20th of September 1994.  Whilst you … Continue reading
Last week we focused on the insurance side of what happens when something goes wrong in space. This is an unexpected follow-up, or part two, of that blog as by coincidence a couple of high-profile examples have occurred in the … Continue reading
NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) is the latest Earth observation (EO) satellite mission to launch. It left Vandenberg Air Force Base in the United States at 13.02 GMT last Saturday. It’s a follow-on mission from ICESat, a … Continue reading
The 2018 UK National Earth Observation (EO) Conference took place last week, and this review is our highlights of three days in Birmingham! The conference was a joint collaboration between the Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Society, the National Centre for … Continue reading
We’re looking at current satellite launches interested in measuring the Earth, wind and fire: Earth China launched its Gaofen-11 satellite, via the Long March 4B rocket, on the 30th July from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in Shanxi Province in … Continue reading
