It has been a rollercoaster week for those of us involved in atmospheric satellite remote sensing. The positive side has seen the launch of Sentinel-4, but the flip side has seen the reported loss of MethaneSAT. Sentinel-4 Launched Copernicus Sentinel-4 was … 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
As everyone in Europe will be aware, and probably others around the world, after four years of talking an eleventh hour trade agreement was reached between the UK and Europe on the 24th December 2020 to get Brexit done … … Continue reading
This week we start in the future with ESA’s announcement of an online press conference on Friday 16th October to discuss the November launch of the Copernicus Sentinel-6 ‘Michael Freilich’ ocean-monitoring satellite; scheduled to take off on the 10th … Continue reading
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
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
August 10th 1992 marked the launch of the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite, the first major oceanographic focussed mission. Twenty five years, and three successor satellites, later the dataset begun by TOPEX/Poseidon is going strong providing sea surface height measurements. TOPEX/Poseidon was a … Continue reading
Today is Back to the Future Day! Or more precisely, October 21st 2015 is the date that Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel back to in the second of the Back to the Future (BTTF) films. We’ve seen a few … Continue reading
