Have you ever wondered what the carbon footprint is of the space sector? Or how many tonnes of carbon dioxide are released for every satellite launched? Whilst Earth Observation as an industry stands up and offers solutions to monitoring changes … Continue reading
There is huge concern within the UK science and business communities that the country is about to walk away from the Horizon Europe research programme, the Copernicus Earth Observation (EO) Programme, and the Euratom nuclear programme. Last week George Freeman, … Continue reading
It’s the European Space Agency’s Living Planet Symposium 2022 all this week! The conference is being held at the World Conference Centre in Bonn, Germany, which means I’ve had to navigate airports, flights and passport control for the first time … Continue reading
This week we’re looking at the ongoing problems for the Sentinel-1B satellite, together with a new satellite launch from China, and a potentially gaming changing new service developed by Wuhan University. Sentinel-1B Satellite Sentinel-1B data users will know that the … Continue reading
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been distressing to watch over the last few weeks, and the war has already had an impact on the space industry in several ways. Launch Facilities In 2021 almost a fifth of the objects launched … Continue reading
An interesting paper was published this week that provides confidence in the accuracy of oceanic Earth Observation data. An European Space Agency (ESA) funded study led by Howarth et al published the paper ‘Global sea-level budget and ocean-mass budget, with … Continue reading
News of problems for Copernicus Sentinel-1B, and a glimpse of the Earth Observation (EO) priorities for NASA, this week. Starting in Europe, the concerning news is that Copernicus 1B suffered an anomaly on the 23rd December, as reported on the … Continue reading
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
