In Europe we are entering the summer holiday season, and people are starting to go away to relax and refresh themselves; however, there is no such slowdown in the Earth Observation sector with the potential for a launch three times … Continue reading
SpaceX’s next rideshare mission for small satellites, Transporter 10, is expected to take off later this week – with the launch currently scheduled for the 4th March from the Vandenberg Space Force Base. While the final payload manifest for the … Continue reading
The first images from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) were released recently. The team working on the measurements, taken at the end of June, were able to make their first assessments of carbon dioxide and solar-induced fluorescence — the “glow” … Continue reading
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
If you didn’t realise remote sensing of other planets and space objects occurs, you’re not alone. Remote sensing is playing an important role in helping us understand how our planet, and our universe, was created; however this isn’t celebrated much … Continue reading
Most people will have seen last week’s news about ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft arriving at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and the animated images of the ‘rubber-duck’ shaped object taken from Navigation Camera (NavCam), part of Rosetta’s Attitude and Orbital Control System. The arrival … Continue reading
