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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
At last week’s European Space Agency (ESA) member states meeting, in the Portuguese coastal city of Matosinhos, a new vision for space activity in Europe was agreed in response to the feeling that the continent is falling behind China and … Continue reading
It’s a mixed week for satellites from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) PROBA missions. The positive side is that last week ESA celebrated twenty years of the PROBA-1 mini-satellite being in orbit. PROBA-1 was launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in … 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
Phytoplankton are microscopic organisations that live in both fresh and seawater and form one of the lowest levels of the aquatic food chain, with many marine creatures eating them. Phytoplankton contain chlorophyll, like plants, and therefore require sunlight to survive … 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
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
The British leg of the SailGP calendar took place in Plymouth last weekend, and so we’ve decided to revive our highly infrequent blog series ‘Can you see sporting venues from space?’ Previously we’ve looked for the Rio Olympic venues, and both … Continue reading
Last week the European Union (EU) and European Space Agency (ESA) signed a new Financial Framework Partnership Agreement (FFPA) that marks the start of a new EU space programme covering the period to 2027. The programme includes investment in space … Continue reading
