The narrative of the satellite industry over the last week had all the components of a blockbuster novel or film: with new adventures beginning, dramatic challenges to overcome, redemption and an emotional end. Like lots of good stories, we start … Continue reading
Tag Archives: ESA
Rosetta: Extra-terrestrial Observation
Most people will have seen last week’s news about ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft arriving at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and the animated images of the ‘rubber-duck’ shaped object taken from Navigation Camera (NavCam), part of Rosetta’s Attitude and Orbital Control System. The arrival … Continue reading
America’s Roadmap for Earth Observations
Have you all been keeping up with your reading of policy documents issued by the Executive Office of the President of the United States? If not, you may have missed their National Plan for Civil Earth Observations (EO), issued a … Continue reading
The Reality of Gravity
Space debris has hit the entertainment headlines recently, with the film Gravity winning various awards; it deals with the aftermath of a space debris collision with the International Space Station. So is the film just a fictional thriller or a … Continue reading
Cresting Wavelength 2014
Today is the final day of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society’s (RSPSoc) annual Wavelength Conference for students and early career professionals in remote sensing and photogrammetry. This year, Pixalytics was one of the sponsors of the conference, which was … Continue reading
How Many Satellites are Orbiting the Earth?
As we discussed last week, the European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel-1A satellite is due to be launched tomorrow night from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. This got me wondering, how many satellites are orbiting the earth? It turns out … Continue reading
Copernicus ready for lift off!
The first satellite of the European Union’s Copernicus project, Sentinel-1A, is due to be launched next Thursday, April 3rd. The project aims to create a constellation of satellites providing a range of Earth Observation data to aid our understanding, and … Continue reading
