In 2011 when the satellite company Planet started, it set itself a ‘Mission 1’ which was to image the entire Earth’s landmass every day. Six years later in November 2017, they confirmed they had achieved that goal through its Dove … Continue reading
This is our update on the satellites currently orbiting the Earth as at the 31st March 2020. According to the Index of Objects Launched into Outer Space, maintained by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), there were … Continue reading
The global pandemic we’re all currently facing demonstrates that borders are just lines on a piece of paper, nationalities are just a list of words and people are just people wherever they live. We all share the same Earth, breathe … Continue reading
Earth Observation (EO) satellite launches are currently few and far between, so today we’re going to celebrate one that’s hit ten years in space, and commiserate with two satellites that have reached end of life. The celebration is for ESA’s … Continue reading
As we begin the New 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? 2019 was another successful one for our … Continue reading
The first images from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) were released recently. The team working on the measurements, taken at the end of June, were able to make their first assessments of carbon dioxide and solar-induced fluorescence — the “glow” … Continue reading
The Data.Space 2019 Conference took place in Glasgow last week, with the key messages of the event focused on new developments in the space industry, need for more transparent pricing for purchasing satellite data – an increasing need for automated … Continue reading
If you’d like to see the 2020 update, please click 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), there … Continue reading
It was great to be invited to give the introductory talk at the inaugural Plymouth NASA Space Apps Challenge last weekend. Space Apps is a two-day international hackathon hosted in cities around the world, globally coordinated by NASA. It began … Continue reading
Earth Observation (EO) satellites currently account for over one third of the operational satellites orbiting the Earth. As we described two weeks ago, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) satellite database there were 1 980 operational satellites at … Continue reading
