Celebration for Proba-1 CHRIS

Last week, I was in Ghent, Belgium, at the PROBA-1 CHRIS End of Mission Workshop hosted by the European Space Agency (ESA). As the name suggests, the workshop marked the end of data collection for the long-lived Compact High Resolution … Continue reading

Hyperspectral Being Hyped Up!

Hyperspectral data looks like it will be the next big development in remote sensing with contracts issued last week by the United States National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Hyperspectral imaging is where the electromagnetic spectrum is broken down into many, often … Continue reading

PROBA Roller-Coaster

It’s a mixed week for satellites from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) PROBA missions. The positive side is that last week ESA celebrated twenty years of the PROBA-1 mini-satellite being in orbit. PROBA-1 was launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in … Continue reading

Blog of Many Colours

The aspect of art at school that really stuck with me was learning about the main colours of the rainbow and how they fit together – like with like, such as yellow, green, blue, and like with unlike such as … Continue reading

The Small and Mighty Proba Missions

This week the European Space Agency announced the latest mission in the Project for OnBoard Automony (PROBA) mini-satellite programme. Proba-3 is planned to launch in four years; and will be a pair of satellites flying in close formation, 150m apart, … Continue reading