October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... host the Copernicus Sentinel 4 air quality observatory. The first MTG satellites are planned to be launched around 2019/20. The EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) is Europe’s first polar-orbiting operational meteorological satellite system, and it is the...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
..., located in Seattle, plans to put into orbit 60 imaging satellites allowing a performance of around 1 metre ground resolution by 2019. Six satellites are under preparation and the first ‘Pathfinder’ was launched in September 2016. UrtheCast, based...
April 2018
Transforming the launch market for small spacecraft
... 672 spacecraft, is planned for in-orbit deployment by 2019. This new situation changes the spacecraft launch strategy. Until...kg will comprise most of the demand for launch during 2019-2020. Based on the announced small satellite upcoming launch ...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
... the team decided to postpone touchdown until the start of 2019 to take advantage of the information now being collected by ... Hayabusa2 will continue to analyse the asteroid until the end of 2019. Then it will begin the journey home, arriving back at...
June 2019
Asgardia’s parliament – a year of progress
...Asgardia’s progress at a unique event in Vienna in April 2019. Key representatives of Asgardia’s government and parliament met to... unforgivable belligerent neglect. First Executive Congress in April 2019. By contrast, for Asgardians, Earth is great -...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... WIRED. Rod has written extensively for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech. His books published in 2019 include Interplanetary Robots, Space 2.0, and First on the Moon. This article is based on an extract from Space 2.0 by Rod...
