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
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Two New EO satellites & One For The Future
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) today launched the Cartosat-3 Earth Observation (EO) satellite from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Cartosat-3 was the major payload on the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle … Continue reading
Middle Earth Observation!
The 2018 UK National Earth Observation (EO) Conference took place last week, and this review is our highlights of three days in Birmingham! The conference was a joint collaboration between the Remote Sensing & Photogrammetry Society, the National Centre for … Continue reading
How many Earth observation satellites are in space in 2018?
Earth Observation (EO) satellites currently account for over one third of the operational satellites orbiting the Earth. As we described two weeks ago, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) satellite database there were 1 980 operational satellites at … Continue reading
No Paraskevidekatriaphobia For Sentinel-5P!
On Friday the latest of the Sentinel satellites, Sentinel-5P, is due to be launched at 09.27 GMT from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia. Friday is the 13th October, and within parts of the western world this is considered to be an … Continue reading
World Record Satellite Launch
Next week the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to launch 104 satellites in one go aboard its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C37) that will take off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India. To give an idea of … Continue reading