This week we’re looking at an usual case of satellite stalking, alongside a busy week for Chinese Earth Observation (EO) satellite launches. Russian Stalking! Last week there were reports of Russian satellite effectively stalking a commercial EO satellite. Reports described … Continue reading
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Satellite Launches & Growth
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
Rocket Launches: Success and Failure
This week has seen two launches from some of the workhorses of the satellite industry, namely one of China’s Long March rockets and Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket; however, the outcomes of the launches were very different, demonstrating how difficult the … Continue reading
First Data and New Launches
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
First Lights and Satellite Launches
This week is all about Asia, as we’re highlighting the first light images of a Taiwanese satellite, plus the latest Chinese launches, and a test flight of a high-altitude platform balloon in India. Taiwan Taiwan has confirmed that its first … Continue reading
China Increasing it’s Influence in Earth Observation
This week we’re looking at the different ways China is increasing influence over the Earth Observation (EO), and wider space sector, across the globe; including supporting satellite launches, helping develop other countries capacity and capability, and new approaches to using … Continue reading
Greenhouse and Literary Satellite Launches
This week we’re highlighting some recent satellite launches, the first of which is the launch by China of a climate satellite monitoring greenhouse gases; and secondly recent Portuguese launches that have literary connections. China Launch On Friday 17th April, China … Continue reading
Myriad of Satellite Launches
This week has seen Space-X’s Transporter-16 rideshare mission successfully launch 119 satellites into orbit. While this is a myriad of new satellites in orbit, it is well below the single mission record of 143 by SpaceX’s Transporter-1 mission on 24th … Continue reading
New Satellite & New Tricks
This week we’re looking at a new satellite launch, and a ten-year old satellite trying out something new! Sentinel-2A Goes Out at Night To disprove the phrase ‘You can’t teach an old dog new tricks’, Sentinel-2A has completed an innovation … Continue reading
Pixalytics 2025 Blog of Blogs!
The end of a year is a time for reviewing the previous 12 months, and also time for the top 10 lists of everything from 2025 – and we’re no different at Pixalytics and so this is our annual post … Continue reading