23 June 2021
ESA and EU embark on a new space programme
... strengthening ESA’s role as the architect of European Earth observation by developing and building the Sentinels Expansion missions and the Sentinel next generation missions, in order to respond to new emerging and urgent user needs and to guarantee...
December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
... swarms for instance, which have an impact on biofuel production, can already be monitored from space. The upcoming Sentinel missions, which are part of the Copernicus programme, will aid in identifying potential sites for solar or wind...
March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
... technology. A crucial link-up in space The Laser Communications Terminal and downlink system on Alphasat and its counterpart on Sentinel-1A EO satellite, flying at a 700Km orbit, have linked up to deliver images of Earth just moments after they were...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
.... Most of the launches have been dedicated to the deployment of the Galileo constellation, the Earth observation satellites Sentinel (European Union, ESA) and Pleiades (CNES), as well as the scientific Gaia satellite (ESA) in 2013. So far, commercial...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG) - pronounced ‘same page’. We even have missions such as the B612 Foundation’s Sentinel Project that is planning to launch an infrared telescope that can scour the skies and give us warning of a killer...
October 2017
Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?
... approach to satellite utilisation. For example, raw satellite data from the bush fire monitoring system on Sentinel had to be processed in the US, posing a major risk during the US government shutdown in 2013 to assume technical responsibilities...
