January 2019
Materials make the space mission
...scope of a given mission dictates the particular environmental parameters it will face. A low-orbiting Earth observation mission faces very different constraints from a geostationary telecommunications satellite, or an exploration mission out to deep...
September 2023
Getting a grip on space sustainability and space debris
... around Earth, are actually quite constrained and fragile. Low Earth orbits (LEO), where we find Earth observation satellites ... Agency wants to lead on. Does space sustainability include Earth’s atmosphere? Thinking about the potential for damage by...
October 2020
Essential role of satellites in disaster and pandemic management
...ALOS-2 Rapid Response satellites where approval to an emergency observation request could be granted within an hour. Once ...provided within five hours. ALOS-2 has night observation capabilities, rendering the emergency response more efficient since...
November 2017
Geospatial maritime solutions
... of our oceans. How do space-based systems contribute to enhanced MDA? To monitor the vast oceans, space-based Earth observation is required. Collecting information about the contents of the ocean, weather, sea conditions and traffic can be done...
August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
... at ESA that oversees and coordinates R&D of Optics and optoelectronics technologies for all ESA applications in Earth observations. He has over 33 years’ experience in space activities, holding a master’s degree in Space System Engineering from...
August 2018
AI offers new approach to space situational awareness
...been a large wave of development using CNNs to detect and identify a vast number of object classes just using Earth observation (EO) images or videos. These complex and expert neural network architectures are trained on large volumes of data to solve...
