December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
... tends to focus on the production of satellites and their launch, significant value also lies in the ‘downstream’ exploitation of remote sensing data Both SpaceX and OneWeb are part of a growing sector, with other companies and countries planning...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
...-orbiting satellite, following the end of its commissioning period. The combination of instruments onboard Metop satellites has remote sensing capabilities to observe the Earth during day- and night-time hours, as well as under cloudy conditions. The...
October 2018
Developing wearable technologies for space and Earth
... Astronomy at Rice University where his primary areas of research are solar physics, exoplanetary physics and Earth remote sensing. He is also responsible for managing all aspects of the growth and development of the Rice Space Institute. He was...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... locations, while at the same time monitoring local surface weather. These latter observations, together with global remote sensing measurements from orbiters, target the atmosphere and its variations, including dust storms and winds that...
June 2015
Ultimate sunbather: NASA and ESA collaborate on Solar Orbiter
... the he at shield has built-in apertures, known as feed-throughs, that allow solar flux directly into the remote sensing instruments. These apertures can be covered by doors when the instrument is not in use or needs to be protected. The instruments...
10 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe blasts off to face the Sun
... according to the most recent observations of the Sun surface.” Solar Orbiter will use a combination of 10 in situ and remote-sensing instruments to observe the turbulent solar surface, the Sun’s hot outer atmosphere and changes in the solar...
