This week we’re looking at two space debris satellite events occurring in the second half of this month, one coming down and the other going up! End of ERS-2 It is anticipated that the European Space Agency’s (ESA) second European … Continue reading
Last week, I was in Ghent, Belgium, at the PROBA-1 CHRIS End of Mission Workshop hosted by the European Space Agency (ESA). As the name suggests, the workshop marked the end of data collection for the long-lived Compact High Resolution … Continue reading
As 2024 begins we’re looking at some of the key Earth Observation (EO) satellite that are already planned to be launched this year. 1st Quarter NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol Cloud Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission is due to be launched on the … Continue reading
This week we’re looking at either end of the life of a satellite. Firstly, an announcement from NOAA on plans to extend the mission of three of their satellites rather than decommissioning them, plus the latest launches from China. Extending … Continue reading
Last week, I was in the Netherlands at the International Remote Sensing for Marine Litter Workshop, which was organised by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The two-day event occurred at the European … Continue reading
An interesting new research paper, published in Nature Geoscience, has used satellite data to determine that young trees are actually more effective at capturing and storing carbon dioxide than older ones. Researchers used data from European Space Agency’s Earth Explorer … Continue reading
This week we’re focussing on the latest developments on European launch facilities, and European scientific programmes. European Space Launches Last Wednesday the Ariane 5 rocket lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana for the last time, taking two satellites … Continue reading
We’ve recently been involved in an exciting project to see if we could run one of our Machine Learning (ML) land cover classification algorithms directly on satellite images in space onboard the ION SCV004 craft around 500 kilometres above the … Continue reading
This week we have details of new satellite launches, a problem on the James Webb Space Telescope, and the impending death of the Aeolus satellite – essentially various aspects of the life cycle of an instrument or satellite. Satellite Births … Continue reading
We’re looking at the latest development in the measurement of sea-ice in the Antarctic, and continuing on from the previous blog there is another announcement in the high altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) sector. Satellite Ice Measurement The next big step … Continue reading
