Last Thursday saw the latest SpaceX rideshare mission take off from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on a Falcon 9 rocket. The mission, called Transporter-18 had 130 payloads on board. The main payload was the experimental satellite Suncatcher … Continue reading
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
Last week I attended the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Connect Helsinki – it was OGC’s 135th Technical Meeting – titled ‘Interoperable Systems, Real-World Impact – A Global Community at Work.’ The meeting took place between the 1st and 4th June … Continue reading
This week NVIDIA have talked about the need and benefits of having artificial intelligence (AI) platforms in space, and China has launched a demonstration satellite doing the same thing amongst a raft of other launches. NVIDIA Boldly Goes … Earlier … 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
An article on a newly published research paper caught our attention this week, which used satellite data to estimate that wildebeest numbers in the Serengeti may be less than half what was previously thought. The paper ‘AI-based satellite survey offers … Continue reading
As discussed last weeks, satellite numbers in space changes frequently. This week has been another great example of this: Successful Satellite Launches – China The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation confirmed the successful launch of 12 satellites last Wednesday, … Continue reading
Last week, on Earth Day, the European Space Agency (ESA) and IBM Research Europe launched the first version of TerraMind, a powerful next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model, that aims to leverage the world’s satellite data to better understand the planet … Continue reading
We often talk about the latest satellite launches on the blog, and these are generally from China, United States, India, or Europe – the current powerhouses of Earth Observation (EO). However, there have a been several announcements over the last … Continue reading
I spent last week in York at the UK National Earth Observation Conference 2024. This joint event occurs every few years, and is organised by the National Centre of Earth Observation (NCEO), the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (RSPSoc), Centre … Continue reading
