Following last week’s blog about the deorbiting of the European Remote Sensing (ERS-2) satellite, this week we’ve got an ERS-2 update, plus a second deorbit – with Cartosat-2 returning to Earth, and finally the launch of the Indian weather satellite … Continue reading
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
Successfully launched satellites are expected to operate for a certain period. This ends when the satellite can no longer able to perform its intended function, cannot maintain its operational altitude, or the fuel level is reaching the minimal point for … Continue reading
This week sees one of the space sector’s premier events take place, with the biennial UK Space Conference at the International Conference Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Space for Our Future The conference takes place between Tuesday and Thursday, and … 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
Focusing on two interesting satellite launches this week, the first is the start of another satellite internet broadband constellation, but this time for Amazon. The second is a rideshare mission, which has a number of interesting Earth Observation (EO) missions. … Continue reading
This week we’re looking at the latest Earth Observation launches, the heaviest geostationary satellite ever launched, and the end of the Aeolus satellite that re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere last Friday. Earth Observation Satellite Launches On Saturday seven satellites were successfully … 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
