SpaceX set a new world record on Sunday, for the number of satellites sent into space on a single rocket. It launched 143 satellites via is Falcon 9 rocket, which broke the previous world record of 104 set by the … Continue reading
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 latest satellite of the Copernicus Sentinel family was launched last Saturday, 21st November, at 17.17 GMT. Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich was taken into orbit by SpaceX via the Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, USA, … Continue reading
We’re in the middle of a busy period for Earth Observation (EO), with new launches and satellites going into service. We begin the new launches in China with news that on Sunday they launched the Gaofen 9-05 satellite from the … Continue reading
Last Thursday, 6th August, China launched its latest Goafen satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia. The satellite, Gaofen 9 (04), was sent into a polar orbit at an altitude of 500 km … 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
In 2011 when the satellite company Planet started, it set itself a ‘Mission 1’ which was to image the entire Earth’s landmass every day. Six years later in November 2017, they confirmed they had achieved that goal through its Dove … 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
Spaceway-1 is a television satellite owned by DirecTV, which in turn is owned by AT&T, and DirecTV recently filed a request with US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to make an emergency deorbit Spaceway-1. This is because, in December, … Continue reading
Three news items on satellites caught our attention this week. Firstly, at the end of September, it was announced that the DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS) was fully operational. This is a hyperspectral imager attached to the exterior of the … Continue reading
