22 April 2016
Arianespace's Soyuz Launch Scheduled for Later Today
... join the space segment of Copernicus - the European Commission's program with the European Space Agency (ESA). Sentinel-1B is designed to provide a comprehensive solution for radar surveillance of the environment and for security issues. The three...
December 2014
Finding NEO
...thirds of PHAs larger than 140m. Another proposed space-based survey, Sentinel, would place a 0.5-metre telescope into an orbit similar to that of Venus. Sentinel is anticipated to be capable of detecting 90 per cent of NEOs larger than 140m in about...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
...headquarters in the United States and dedicated to planetary defence against asteroids and other NEOs) is building its Sentinel spacecraft. Both of these infrared telescope satellites could greatly increase our ability to spot the threat of dangerous...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... involved with projects such as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ESA’s GAIA, ExoMars, BepiColombo and Sentinel missions. Its extensive activities have been significantly boosted by the burgeoning, commercial NewSpace landscape, ranging from...
29 November 2019
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget
... the existing arrangement. At present, three complete two-satellite constellations are in orbit plus an additional single satellite, Sentinel-5P. Some projects hoping for a cash boost were not so lucky. ESA’s Lagrange space weather mission that...
07 August 2019
Successful launch of the second SpaceDataHighway satellite
...the images of Earth acquired by the Copernicus programme’s four Sentinel observation satellites. Since it entered service in late 2016,... service will be tested and commissioned with the Sentinel satellites. The SpaceDataHighway is the world’s first ...
