March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
... before GPM. The Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) satellite, the first US-Japan joint development project in Earth observation, was launched in 1997 to monitor tropical rainfall. GEOSS and Japan’s priorities Japan has been busy promoting...
19 June 2018
Harwell Space Cluster turbocharges growth in UK’s ‘New Space’ sector
... by lowering the operational altitude. Skimsat is a small satellite set to become the new normal solution for Earth observing missions. Open Cosmos: Announcing a collaboration between Open Cosmos and the Satellite Applications Catapult to deliver IOD...
11 May 2020
Spacecraft and telescopes join forces to probe deep into Jupiter's atmosphere
...Imke de Pater also of UC Berkeley, are combining multiwavelength observations from Hubble and Gemini with close-up views from Juno's...for Juno's measurements in the same way that Earth-observing weather satellites provide context for NOAA's high-flying...
September 2016
Small launcher market survey
... (smallsat) capabilities to meet the seemingly insatiable global interest in space-based capabilities, such as earth observation (EO), communications and terrestrial weather forecasting data. This up-swell of demand of smallsat technologies and...
September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
...is closed by bringing space technologies back to Earth, through ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme, to spread... with as many technology demonstration payloads as possible. Earth-observing Proba-1 in 2001 demonstrated the first hyperspectral imager and...
November 2016
Turning the Solar System into our backyard
... through beamed energy from in-situ manufactured solar panels on the surface of the Moon and the creation of an Earth observation and data analytics platform to support farmers in rural areas with location-based real-time information. These...
