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Tag Archives: ESA
Earth Observation Leads The Way
The European Space Agency’s Ministerial Council met in Seville in Spain last week and agreed the organisations biggest ever budget of €14.338 billion covering the period of 2020. This matched the funding level that ESA was requesting at the meeting, … Continue reading
Two New EO satellites & One For The Future
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) today launched the Cartosat-3 Earth Observation (EO) satellite from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Cartosat-3 was the major payload on the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle … Continue reading
November Flooding In Northern England
Last week the Midlands and the North of the UK was subject to a weather system with heavy and persistent rain. In fact, a weather station in Sheffield recorded its greatest ever metrological autumn rainfall of over 425 mm, breaking … Continue reading
SMOS Hits Tin
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite has just celebrated ten years in orbit, remarkable for a satellite whose mission life was considered to be a minimum of three years. It was launched on the … Continue reading
Earth Observation Satellites – Past, Present & Future
Last month was the 25th Anniversary of LITE – the Lidar In-space Technology Experiment (LITE) that was the principal payload on the Discovery Space shuttle mission STS-64, which took place between the 9th and 20th of September 1994.  Whilst you … Continue reading
It’s the UK Space Conference
This week we’re fully submerged in all things space-related at the industry’s biennial conference in Newport, Wales – in fact, this is the first-ever conference to take place in the International Conference Centre Wales and it’s a great venue with … Continue reading
When Things Go Wrong In Space – Part Two
Last week we focused on the insurance side of what happens when something goes wrong in space. This is an unexpected follow-up, or part two, of that blog as by coincidence a couple of high-profile examples have occurred in the … Continue reading
UK Earth Observation Industry’s Balancing Act
It’s been a roller-coaster of announcements for the UK Space industry, and our Earth Observation (EO) industry, over the last month. It began on the 16th July with an announcement by the then Science Minister, Chris Skidmore, of a partnership … Continue reading
A small step for Earth Observation ….
This week marks 50 years since the first Moon landing, and we thought it might be interesting to reflect on a couple of ways that this programme influenced the Earth Observation (EO) industry. Blue Marble In terms of imaging the … Continue reading
