Earth Observation Satellite News From Around The Globe

We’re looking at the OceanSat-3 satellite launch in India this week, together with the latest launches from China and a reminder that in Europe it is the week of the ESA Ministerial! India Satellite Launch The OceanSat-3 satellite is scheduled … Continue reading

Satellite Births and Coming Losses

It is the start of an exciting few weeks for the Earth Observation (EO) satellite industry with a number of launches in the coming weeks including the delayed Oceansat-3 which we’ll talk about next week, the UK’s first satellite launch … Continue reading

State of UK Space and Satellite Industry

Last week the UK Government’s Science and Technology Committee published its report into the ‘UK Space Strategy and UK Satellite Infrastructure’. At over ninety-pages in length, there is a lot of detail and interesting comments within the document, with the … Continue reading

Understanding Evapotranspiration Better

Evapotranspiration is an area we’ve been working within for the last few years, and have previously written about, and so it was interesting to see a new article published last week in the Nature Climate Change journal. The paper, ‘Evapotranspiration frequently … Continue reading

Ministerial Revolving Door Doesn’t Help Space Sector

In the week that the UK have appointed our third Prime Minister in less than two months, Rishi Sunak, MP, has a large in-tray to deal with; not least providing economic stability, cost of living crisis, energy bill support, supporting … Continue reading

Space Technology Supporting The Planet

The role space technology and remote sensing plays in the world, together with how it supports innovation and advancement were highlighted in several reports and articles this week. We’re going to be looking at those related to agricultural and innovation … Continue reading

Using Satellites To Manage Water Resources

Water has constantly been in the headlines over the last few months. In northern Europe there has been a scarcity of water and concerns about drought, although the rains are starting to arrive. Compare this with Pakistan that has suffered … Continue reading

Satellite Launches This Month

This week we’re catching up on some of the interesting satellite launches over the last month, as usual China has been very active, and, equally predictably, so have Starlink. China Earth Observation Satellite Launches The latest launch, on the 20th … Continue reading

Tracking Marine Plastic Litter From Space

Last week, the European Space Agency (ESA) issued an article about the MARLISAT project tracking marine plastic litter using a combination of in-situ and satellite data together with a computer model. We’re delighted as this is a project we’ve been … Continue reading

Requiems for Satellites

We’re all dressed in black this week as we mourn the loss of three satellites: EOS-02 & AzaadiSAT Satellites In our previous blog we wrote about the planned launch last weekend of the EOS-02 & AzaadiSAT satellites by the Indian … Continue reading