Download this page in PDF format Earlier this month we highlighted a project we are currently engaged in, looking at how satellite imagery is being used within agriculture sector in the UK. This week we were interested to see a … Continue reading
Download this page in PDF format Last week saw the launch of the latest mission in the European Union’s Copernicus Programme, as Sentinel-5A was successfully delivered into a polar orbit onboard the MetOp-SG A1 satellite. The Ariane-6 rocket took off … Continue reading
Download this page in PDF format At the International Astronautical Congress, which took place last week in Milan, Italy, the European Union (EU) confirmed that funding had been agreed for the development of all six Copernicus Sentinel Expansion Missions as … Continue reading
Download this page in PDF format Update: Copernicus Sentinel-2C launched successfully in the early hours of Thursday morning. Launch was delayed 24 hours due to electrical issues. The launch of the Sentinel-2C satellite is scheduled for the early hours of … Continue reading
Download this page in PDF format 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 … Continue reading
Download this page in PDF format 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 … Continue reading
Download this page in PDF format This is not a warning, but an oxymoron for two key weather stories over the last week. Firstly, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) announced that 2020 was the planet’s joint warmest year on … Continue reading
Download this page in PDF format Two weeks ago, we wrote about how the satellite industry was failing to deliver useful and actionable information, despite the huge increase in data, in relation to the Australian bushfires. There have been a … Continue reading
Download this page in PDF format The Arctic currently has hundreds of wildfires stretching across northern Russia, northern Scandinavia, Alaska and Greenland. It’s strange to think that one of the coldest places on the planet is on fire, but it … Continue reading
Download this page in PDF format This week Sentinel-2A celebrated its 4th birthday, as it was launched on the 23rd June 2015 from French Guiana. It was followed by its twin, Sentinel-2B, which was launched almost two years later on … Continue reading
