October 2025
Satellite technology - from operational challenges to strategic opportunities
... enabling a new generation of satellite systems that support ever-more demanding applications across communications, navigation and Earth observation domains. The next decade will be crucial in determining whether the satellite industry can meet the...
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...
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...
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...