March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
... (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...
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...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... 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...
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...
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
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
... space economy. This new economy has produced constellations of Earth observation satellites which help us see both how our world is.... Changing perspectives For many years, the Earth observation sector struggled for commercial acceptance. Now the...
