Reports at the weekend from Roscosmos, Russia’s State Space Corporation, indicated there was a near miss between India’s Cartosat-2F and a Russia’s Kanopus-V satellite last Friday. According to Roscosmos’s Warning Automated System of Hazardous Situations information centre, the satellites came … Continue reading
The ripples of the global pandemic are being felt by the European Earth Observation (EO), and wider, space industry as the leaders of the twenty-seven European Union (EU) countries agreed a € 750 billion stimulus package to support their countries … Continue reading
Last week saw some interesting developments for the UK Space Industry. Firstly, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Industrial Policy Committee awarded contracts of €2.55 billion for the development of six new Copernicus satellite missions, with both Thales and Airbus being … Continue reading
Last week we wrote about how Earth Observation satellites were monitoring the changes in nitrogen dioxide levels in country’s placing restrictions on daily life. We’re going to start this week’s blog with a look at how night-time imagery has changed … Continue reading
We know Brexit only happened twelve days ago and whilst little has practically changed due to the transition arrangements, there have already been interesting developments for the UK Space Industry. Yes, really! On the 3rd February, the European Commission adopted … Continue reading
EgyptSat-A, also known as MisrSat-A, was launched on Thursday 21st February from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan by the Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat rocket. This is Egypt’s third Earth observation satellite following EgyptSat-1 and EgyptSat-2. which were launched in 2007 and 2014 respectively. … Continue reading
The starting gun fired some time ago on the race to create a global satellite internet network. Last week OneWeb, backed by the Virgin Group and Qualcomm, stretched its legs with the announcement of a $500 million investment from companies … Continue reading
