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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
26 July 2021
EUMETSAT strengthens environment monitoring role
... atmospheric and ocean products from the future Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) and CRISTAL polar-monitoring missions. The Copernicus 2.0 agreement signed by the commission and EUMETSAT also extends funding to the WEkEO Copernicus...
