This is not the latest update – you can find the 2025 position here. This is our latest update examining the satellites currently orbiting the Earth. How many satellites are orbiting the Earth? According to the Index of Objects Launched … Continue reading
It seems that the spirit of co-operation and collaboration has gripped the Earth Observation (EO) industry this week, with a number of companies announcing new partnerships in the last week: ICEYE Last week, the Finnish company, ICEYE, announced an agreement … Continue reading
As we reach the final blog of 2022, we’re using this week to look back at Pixalytics’ most popular blogs of the last year. Have you read all of these? Our most viewed blog of the year was How many … Continue reading
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
An updated post for 2023 can be found here! According to the Index of Objects Launched into Outer Space, maintained by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), there were 8 261 individual satellites orbiting the Earth at … Continue reading
Last month the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its latest assessment report on how the planet is being impacted by climate change. The Working Group 1 report is the first instalment of the IPPC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), … Continue reading
Having spent the last few weeks looking at the developing capabilities in Earth Observation (EO) for certain countries, this week we’re looking at the wider picture and having a more detailed look at the overall number of operational satellites who … Continue reading
An updated version of this post for 2022 can be found here. How many satellites are orbiting the Earth? According to the Index of Objects Launched into Outer Space, maintained by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), … 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
The night-sky currently has a special treat as Comet NEOWISE passes close to Earth, and it is visible to many people with the naked eye. Astronomers using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite discovered comet NEOWISE, short for C/2020 F3 … Continue reading
