October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
..., its climate and changing environment. As a result, ESA has become a major provider of Earth observation data and stimulated the build-up of the Earth science community and beyond. Started in the mid-1990s, the ESA’s Living Planet Program heralded...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
... the existing appetite and growing marketplace for space-based data. Northern Sky Research, a satellite and space consultancy, expects annual demand for Earth observation data and services to rise from just over US$3 billion to $6.9 billion over...
October 2020
Pandemic impacts - the state of the ground segment
... virtual assets must be addressed. Data in transit (e.g. command and control communications, Earth observation data and live monitoring information) as well as data at rest (e.g. satellite information databases, data in storage and secure application...
March 2021
iPhone moment for the Earth observation industry
... to write code and publish it on their App Store. The rest is history. The dreamer inside me believes that Earth observation data will definitely unlock multiple, multi-billion dollar markets across verticals, traversing throughout the value chain...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
... space-enabled industry and will be a leading global centre for the translation of space research and Earth observation (EO) data into commercial applications, services and businesses. SPL will provide research and manufacturing innovation alongside...
September 2025
AI cybersecurity - challenges in space
...the first experiment to demonstrate how onboard artificial intelligence can improve the efficiency of sending Earth observation data back to Earth. This revolutionary artificial intelligence technology flew on one of the two CubeSats that make up the...
