March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
... visible) has to be transmitted in real time from the ground station to the control centre. Science data and other ancillary data acquired during a pass have less stringent timeliness and availability requirements. Traditionally, high capacity MPLS...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
...significantly improve the quality of the solution, although collaboration might well be needed to allow this. Collaborations and data sharing The UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), the International Astronautical Federation, and the EU Space...
04 November 2022
NASA’s climate change mineral dust detector
... the chemical composition of atmospheric mineral dust, is powered by hardware from high-performance electronics company Alpha Data. Data gathered by the NASA instrument - called the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) - as the...
July 2014
Understanding Earth: GEO and the SDG environmental agenda
... environmental issues (see figure above). A globally co-ordinated strategy for the collection, integration and sharing of these data and information must, therefore, play an essential role in the context of the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals...
July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
... without having to invest in infrastructure. CEMS data products also come with a measure of how...now operating their own satellites and selling data and data products to end users. Earth observation data, though, can be complex and difficult...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... of resident space objects to enhance the accuracy and precision of our knowledge of these objects. Then, this orbital data should be shared as widely as possible among actors in the space arena, while incorporating operator knowledge (e.g. past and...
