This week the European Space Agency has released its new Earth Observation Science Strategy, Earth Science in Action for Tomorrow’s World. Having a science driven approach at its heart, the new strategy outlines a vision for Earth science through to … Continue reading
Today, we’re looking at a trilogy of Earth Observation (EO) satellite first light images released last week. All three satellites were launched over the last couple of months, and it is exciting to see what they are acquiring. Sentinel-2C First … Continue reading
We’re looking at the latest Earth Observation (EO) news from around the globe. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Last week NASA, awarded the latest contract under its Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program, with eight companies selected to provide commercial … Continue reading
SpaceX’s Transporter-11 rideshare mission with a payload of CubeSats took off last Friday, 16th August, from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. As usual with these rideshare missions, there was a variety of Earth Observation (EO) small satellites and … Continue reading
The focus of this week’s blog is India with the anticipated launch of an Earth Observation satellite, plus a new educational course opportunity focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning. Satellite Launch The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has a … Continue reading
This week were are looking at the latest Earth Observation (EO) satellite in orbit, together with a couple of exciting launches that are coming up in the near future. Strix-4 Launch Last Friday, 2nd August, saw the successful launch of … Continue reading
The danger of being in space was highlighted in the last couple of weeks with the break-up of a Russian satellite creating hundreds of pieces of space debris, which can be a risk to other orbiting craft, including those with … Continue reading
Focusing this week on the successful launch of the Japanese Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4, together with the first light image from the recently launched EarthCARE satellite. Launch The start of the month saw the successful launch of an Earth Observation … Continue reading
This week, we are catching up with the latest Earth Observation (EO) satellite launches from NASA and China and looking forward to the planned NOAA EO launch next week. NASA Launches A pair of NASA CubeSats forming the PREFIRE (Polar … Continue reading
The Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) satellite is scheduled to be launched next week. This is joint European/Japanese mission involving European Space Agency (ESA), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), & Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology … Continue reading
