17 November 2020
Vega fails during launch of European Earth observation satellites
... days, and could have helped map natural disasters such as floods, wildfires and earthquakes. ESA’s Director of Earth Observation Programmes, Josef Aschbacher, said, “We are all very sad for the loss of the SEOSAT-Ingenio land...
May 2017
Could Brexit blow a hole in UK’s space ambitions?
... the Galileo global navigation satellite system (GNSS), which began operations in December 2016, and the Copernicus Earth observation programmes. Funded and owned by the EU, ESA acts as design and procurement agent for Galileo on behalf of the...
October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
.... About the author Nicolas Lévêque joined Airbus (then Astrium) in 2007. He has worked on and managed various Earth observation studies, including the Sentinel -5 Precursor project since late 2009, in the dual role of platform system engineer...
February 2018
Our space future lies in innovation
... across our five fields of activity - launchers, science, observation, communications and defence. Our forward-looking strategy is based ... Mars Space also plays a very significant role in Earth observation as well. When you speak about the Internet of...
20 September 2021
New partnership to deliver high-value EO agriculture data
... set to combine their respective thermal infrared and hyperspectral imagery expertise to deliver high-value Earth observation (EO) data to enable a wide range of sustainable agricultural applications. Based in Germany, ConstellR is pioneering the use...
January 2020
Open source space sustainability
... the world to be part of the solution. A September 2019 manoeuvre of the European Space Agency (ESA) Aeolus Earth observation satellite to avoid a potential collision with a satellite in the SpaceX Starlink constellation thrust once obscure matters...
