June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST) and other projects such as NASA’s NEOCAM and the ill-fated Sentinel project of the B612 Foundation. The space-based systems are, of course, assisted by ground-based observatories. Solar...
April 2021
Making space part of the everyday European agenda
... navigation system - but there may be others to come and this is something I’d certainly like to explore further. Sentinel-6, a European-US ocean-monitoring satellite in the Copernicus series. If you had the opportunity to address global leaders...
November 2021
Space in support of sustainable development
... free high-quality Copernicus data to monitor gas and oil pipelines from space. Of particular interest to OrbitalEye is Sentinel-1A’s SAR imagery, which offers very high-resolution imaging data that can be collected day or night, independent...
10 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...
30 June 2015
Debating Asteroid Day: NEOs, Dr. Brian May, the Catalina Sky Survey and more
... its efforts on building an infrared, cryogenic space telescope to put in orbit around the Sun. The telescope, called Sentinel, will be looking at Earth with the Sun at its back, scanning space for potential nearby threats. In order...
21 November 2015
ESA to monitor plant health from space
..., a feat that has never been possible before. FLEX will orbit in tandem with one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites, taking advantage of its optical and thermal sensors to provide an integrated package of measurements. ESA's Earth Explorer...
