SpaceX and its Starlink satellites have made the news for multiple reasons this week. On December 2nd SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket put 48 Starlink satellites into a 430 km low earth orbit from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in … Continue reading
A set of six fantastic first light images from Landsat-9 were released by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) last week. All acquired on the 31st October 2021, the images include Detroit & Michigan with Lake Erie as shown … Continue reading
It won’t have escaped your notice that COP26 is taking place in Glasgow in the UK this week. There are a lot of articles coming out on how Earth Observation (EO) can support the measurement and monitoring of various aspect … Continue reading
Summarising the latest Earth Observation (EO) news, this week we’re looking at the latest Copernicus Contributing Mission, the latest solar observation satellite from China, a HAPS world altitude record and an announcement from Monaco! We’ll start with the Copernicus Contributing … Continue reading
NASA’s Landsat-9 was successfully launched on the 27th September, but it was not the only satellite onboard the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, as two cubesats also hitched a ride: Cusp Plasma Imaging Detector (CuPID) is an Earth Observation … Continue reading
NASA are preparing to launch Landsat 9 which is scheduled for Monday 27th September from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California using the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 401 rocket – although there has already been a few … Continue reading
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the UK Earth Observation 2021 week. The National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation (CEOI) and the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (RSPSoc) created a fully packed virtual … Continue reading
Next week is the UK Earth Observation 2021 week! The National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation (CEOI) and the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (RSPSoc) have come together to run a single online conference from … Continue reading
Last week the second satellite in Airbus’ PlĂ©iades Neo Earth Observation (EO) constellation was successfully launched from French Guiana onboard ArianeSpace’s Vega rocket. PlĂ©iades Neo 4 is the second in what will be a four-satellite constellation. The first satellite, PlĂ©iades … 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
