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 →

Ice and Wind Measurements

NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) is the latest Earth observation (EO) satellite mission to launch. It left Vandenberg Air Force Base in the United States at 13.02 GMT last Saturday. It’s a follow-on mission from ICESat, a … Continue reading →