We’re delighted to start this week’s blog with the news that last Thursday Pixalytics won the Pixalytics won the Future Tech Award category of the Tech South West Awards! It was an amazing night for us for many reasons! Firstly, … Continue reading
Last Friday the World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Digital Earth Africa, released their report ‘Unlocking the potential of Earth Observation to address Africa’s critical challenges’. The assessment in the report, which grabbed the headlines, was that the work of … Continue reading
As everyone in Europe will be aware, and probably others around the world, after four years of talking an eleventh hour trade agreement was reached between the UK and Europe on the 24th December 2020 to get Brexit done … … Continue reading
As we’re coming to the end of the year, we’re using this week to look back at our most popular blogs of the last twelve months. The question is, how many of them have you read? 2020 has been a … Continue reading
With transport being the UK’s biggest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, the transition from conventional engines to Electric Vehicles (EVs) is imperative but will bring an unprecedented increase in demand for battery metals. The Satellite Applications Catapult is leading on … Continue reading
Last Thursday, 6th August, China launched its latest Goafen satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia. The satellite, Gaofen 9 (04), was sent into a polar orbit at an altitude of 500 km … Continue reading
The ripples of the global pandemic are being felt by the European Earth Observation (EO), and wider, space industry as the leaders of the twenty-seven European Union (EU) countries agreed a € 750 billion stimulus package to support their countries … Continue reading
This week we’re putting the focus on the current developments in ocean remote sensing – in the widest sense of the word! Firstly, last Thursday, China launched the Haiyang 1D (HY-1D) satellite, from China’s Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre on the … Continue reading
The global Space Apps COVID-19 Challenge was announced recently. This will be a virtual hackathon over forty-eight hours where teams from across the planet will get together to use Earth Observation data to propose solutions to the challenges we are … Continue reading
Two weeks ago, we wrote about how the satellite industry was failing to deliver useful and actionable information, despite the huge increase in data, in relation to the Australian bushfires. There have been a couple of interesting news reports issued … Continue reading
