21 November 2023
Britain announces plan to launch EO satellite
... human knowledge. “We are focused on catalysing investment, delivering new missions and capabilities in areas such as Earth observation and the low-Earth orbit economy, and championing the opportunities that our growing space sector brings to people...
February 2020
Europe’s role in space standardisation
... currently cover: navigation and positioning receivers for road applications; space situational awareness monitoring; Earth observation; planetary protection; upstream standards; and future activities in space standardisation. ESA is an active member...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... added to LEO. Most recently, on 27 March 2019, India conducted an ASAT test (known as Mission Shakti) on a 740 kg Earth observation satellite called Microsat-R, which added at least 400 new sizable debris objects to the population. A time history...
25 April 2023
Cloud-based platform to be used for satellite imagery analysis
...) with SkyFi, a company providing on-demand satellite imagery from a growing network of over 70 satellites. Once integrated, SkyFi Earth observation data will be made available to users of Metaspectral Fusion, a cloud-based platform for the real-time...
June 2018
Archaeologist of the future
... of an economic rationale. Satellites first found their relevance in telecommunications, followed by weather monitoring and Earth observation. In recent years the latter has taken a whole new dimension thanks to miniaturisation and satellites now...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
... the realisation and maintenance of human rights obligations terrestrially, such as the use of remote sensing and Earth observation satellites for monitoring humanitarian developments in Burma. Secondly, the extension of terrestrial human rights into...
