...in the ‘Technology’ category but this shrinks to 14 percent in the SpaceWorks market forecast for 2017-2019 with ‘Earth Observation/Remote Sensing’ forecast to increase to 64 percent. SpaceWorks’ projections (see top of p45) show that more than 2,400...
... (ISIS) soon found areas of overlapping interest and have gone on to develop high capability and reliable optical Earth observation (EO)payloads for the growing CubeSat market. ISIS was founded in 2006 to provide a full spectrum of CubeSat missions...
... 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...
... to see further consolidation as operators try to scale and position themselves for growth. Like satcom, the Earth observation (EO) industry is rapidly transforming with new technologies and will see a significant increase in capacity and modalities...
... 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...
... 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...