30 May 2017
Plans for Europe's first commercial video satellite constellation
.... Until now extracting value from EO data has been the preserve of governments and some larger corporations. Earth-i is now at the forefront of an era known as NewSpace, driven by commercial organisations that want to improve investment and trading...
08 March 2021
New study determines best place and time to live in the Milky Way
... on the outskirts of the galaxy. The Universe is populated with a plethora of astrophysical phenomena that could decimate life on Earth in a fraction of the time it took to get established in the first place. It would only take a nearby high-energy...
18 July 2017
Why the space programme needs civil engineers
... platform is used to launch spacecraft both into and beyond Earth’s atmosphere. This is a challenging job as there are ...stations Civil engineers aren’t just needed for structures on Earth. They also work with structural engineers, astrophysicists and ...
26 July 2021
EUMETSAT strengthens environment monitoring role
... domain, based on the organisation's knowledge of the management of big data. It allows the agencies to supply their Copernicus Earth observation data to users, via the cloud, without energy-intensive duplication of data streams and archives," Evans...
January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
.... It will involve the implementation of a multi-platform for Earth observation data - the Digital Planet – which aims to increase... of downstream users can be clearly identified: Earth Observation (EO) users (including meteorological forecasting), GNSS...
12 August 2019
Communicating water-powered CubeSats tested in space by NASA
... and more extended use of small spacecraft in and beyond Earth-orbit," said Roger Hunter, program manager of the Small... photons as possible into the collector, another seemingly innocuous Earthly feature can cause problems; cloud cover. If just one...
