14 July 2022
Europe's Vega-C rocket makes successful debut flight
... missions, four institutional and three commercial, and we hope to soon have four more orders for the Copernicus programme from the European Commission. “Today we have demonstrated the Vega-C is a flight proven launcher and one...
01 August 2023
Report predicts continued growth of smallsat market
... driver for this growth by offering reassurance and resilience to investors, including ESA's commercial additions to its Copernicus program, Starlink's government support, and the National Reconnaissance Office's 10-year contract with Maxar, BlackSky...
18 December 2024
EU to launch advanced constellation to counter Musk’s Starlink
... and Security by Satellite). IRIS² is the European Union's (EU) third flagship space programme, after Galileo and Copernicus, and is designed to address pressing long-term challenges in security, safety and resilience. “By offering advanced...
05 May 2026
Europe at the edge of a new world
...continent has too often positioned itself as a supporting actor. Referencing programmes such as Rosetta, Gaia and Copernicus, he acknowledged Europe’s engineering achievements. But critique followed. “Europe provides the engineering,” he said, “while...
10 May 2016
'Big Data' issues to be discussed at GLIS 2016
... numerous ways; in that, it is a producer of big data sets - e.g. the European Earth Observation and Monitoring System Copernicus; it is confronted with the transmission of big data sets - e.g. Satellite Communication Systems, and it is itself a user...
03 June 2019
CEN and CENELEC to hold workshop on standards in space applications
... the global navigation satellite system Galileo and EGNOS for road, rail, air and maritime transport; Copernicus for earth observation; the socio-economic, safety and security benefits of Earth observation. Keynote speakers will...
