Satellite Launch & Light

Focusing this week on the successful launch of the Japanese Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4, together with the first light image from the recently launched EarthCARE satellite. Launch The start of the month saw the successful launch of an Earth Observation … Continue reading

EarthCARE Satellite Launch Imminent

The Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) satellite is scheduled to be launched next week. This is joint European/Japanese mission involving European Space Agency (ESA), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), & Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology … Continue reading

Launch Failures & 3D Printing

We’re looking at the impact of launch failures for Earth Observation (EO) satellites, together with a potential 3D-printed rocket launch. Starting with the launch failures: Japanese Launch We have to report the loss of an EO satellite on Monday as … Continue reading

Space Challenges Before Orbit

Space is a difficult environment to work in, but even getting there is also difficult. We’re looking at some of those challenges with satellite launch failures, importance of data and why the UK is no closer to participating in the … Continue reading

Latest Earth Observation Satellite Launches

Earth observation (EO) satellites were amongst the payload on board the H-IIA rocket which was launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) at 1.08pm on Monday 29th October from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima, Japan. The largest satellite … Continue reading