06 November 2019
UK Space Agency confirms £7.35 million funding to support small satellite launch from Cornwall
... Cornwall is not expected to have a significant impact on Cornwall’s overall greenhouse gas emissions and efforts to combat climate change. The UK Space Agency originally announced its intention to award funding to Spaceport Cornwall and Virgin Orbit...
01 October 2020
UK to launch new international space collaborations
... tackling space debris with new monitoring technologies to using Earth Observation satellites to track issues like climate change, and space science and satellite applications to provide expert disaster relief assistance. Alice Bunn, International...
23 June 2021
ESA and EU embark on a new space programme
... urgent user needs and to guarantee enhanced continuity of current data. Such missions will monitor various aspects of climate change and will support the implementation of key EU policies, such as the Green Deal. This places Europe at the...
January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
... of a constellation of small satellites dedicated to investigating and monitoring the Atlantic Ocean, responding to climate-change challenges, increased pressure of anthropogenic activities and the need to foster a sustainable economy sector. The...
12 July 2017
MODIS satellite confirms massive ice shelf rift
...research project, have been investigating the effects of a warming climate on the Larsen C ice shelf in West Antarctica for...event, and we’re not aware of any link to human-induced climate change, this puts the ice shelf in a very vulnerable position. ...
23 July 2020
China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission launches successfully
... agency writer Jiang Li. “With an explosion of human population, declining natural resources and a daunting global challenge of climate change on Earth, the ultimate goal of space exploration to planets like Mars is to secure the longer-term survival...
