February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
..., a carbon dioxide monitoring mission led by the French space agency CNES and the European observation programme, Copernicus. Sentinel-5P tropospheric nitrogen dioxide measurements over Europe, Africa, Middle East, and India from April 2018 (averaged...
March 2021
Data may be the new oil... but its real value is in actionable information
... to see surface structure and roughness and detect anthropogenic features such as buildings, vehicles and ships. The Copernicus Sentinel fleet will be maintained over the next two decades, at least, and will be augmented with satellites that...
14 July 2016
Sentinel 3A satellite handed over to Eumetsat
... – the marine products. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2016) "This handover also puts the EU–ESA–Eumetsat cooperation in Copernicus into full action. While the EU leads Copernicus overall, and ESA coordinates the space component...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
... busy Frankfurt airport looks almost deserted amid the COVID-19 crisis in an image captured by Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on 30 March 2020. The activities of those commercial businesses deemed “essential” included those of Nanoracks...
April 2018
Climate monitoring and the need for open access to global environmental satellite data
... Observations (GEO), a new international organisation for which international data sharing was a key goal. The Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite captured the presence of elevated absorbing aerosols – caused by fires – in the atmosphere off the west...
October 2019
Making the most of Blockchain in space
... tremendous value and providing the start-up community with easy access to much-needed funds. Image from Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite showing part of northeast Kenya. “Security token technology will be a particularly important development for the...
