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...
April 2025
Spacecraft anomalies and insurance losses
...2023, a Rocket Lab Electron rocket suffered an anomaly 2.5 minutes into flight, resulting in the loss of a Capella Space Earth-observing satellite. Investigations concluded that the cause of the anomaly was a highly complex set of conditions that are...
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...
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...
