The Pixalytics weekly blog has been on hiatus for the last three months, but now we’re back! Our restart is to co-inside with the celebration of our 9th Birthday, which took place at the start of May. We’re delighted and … Continue reading
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
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
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
Last week we focused on the insurance side of what happens when something goes wrong in space. This is an unexpected follow-up, or part two, of that blog as by coincidence a couple of high-profile examples have occurred in the … Continue reading
