19 November 2021
New mission to search for habitable planets close to Earth announced
...-derived name for Alpha Centauri from antiquity, TOLIMAN stands for Telescope for Orbit Locus Interferometric Monitoring of our Astronomical Neighbourhood. It will search for exoplanets around the nearest stars, by looking for the small...
November 2018
Monitoring illegal rainforest deforestation
... minimised and its behaviour is very well modelled. We believe that a low inclination orbit constellation is more suitable to monitor the tropical rainforests of the world than the present SSO satellites as it better avoids cloud coverage by passing...
October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
...nitrogen oxides, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, ozone, etc) that are important products for the monitoring and forecasting of air quality. These have an impact on human health, either directly or indirectly while, paradoxically, high...
22 April 2021
Earth Day 2021 - What can you do to help?
Today marks the 51st anniversary of Earth Day. First celebrated in 1970, Earth Day sparked a wave of international action. In 2016, the United Nations chose this very day – 22 April – as the day when the landmark Paris Agreement was signed. ...
28 June 2023
New wildfire monitoring constellation
... be downlinked via Spire's ground station network and delivered to OroraTech. The satellites will help identify and monitor areas at risk of wildfires as well as enable early detection of wildfire hot spots, which are increasing rapidly as a result...
23 May 2023
Canada to develop wildfire monitoring mission
... Space Agency’s feasibility study contract is further testament to the use of cutting-edge satellite technology to improve wildfire monitoring and early detection methods. Data can be captured from remote areas of the world and processed quickly...
