July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
.... A normally 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...
20 November 2015
ESA to monitor plant health from space
... glow, a feat that has never been possible before. FLEX will orbit in tandem with one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites, taking advantage of its optical and thermal sensors to provide an integrated package of measurements. ESA's Earth...
01 April 2016
Joke Carved into Olympus Mons by Unknown Race Discovered
... jokes kept on coming in recent decades. In 2004, they announced that they were accepting applications for positions at Copernicus Center, a new “lunar hosting and research center”. Applicants had to be “capable of surviving with limited access...
22 April 2016
Arianespace's Soyuz Launch Scheduled for Later Today
... With a liftoff mass of 2,164 kg., this Thales Alenia Space-built platform will join the space segment of Copernicus - the European Commission's program with the European Space Agency (ESA). Sentinel-1B is designed to provide a comprehensive solution...
01 September 2016
New software uses satellite data to monitor wildlife habitats by airports
... with fewer resources to meet the same safety standards as large airports. Free data from the latest Copernicus Sentinel satellites make this an affordable solution for airports.” Using satellite data to detect water Two smaller...
16 September 2019
First European satellite with AI set for launch
... two CubeSats that make up the FSSCat mission – an innovative mission concept consisting of two 6U Cubesats in support of the Copernicus Land and Marine Environment service. The two CubeSats, each about the size of a loaf of bread, will...
