November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... in development and have not yet achieved the level of commercial operations, the Space Activities Law and Remote Sensing Law encourages them to enter the commercial space market on a level playing field with international competitors. In this...
January 2019
Materials make the space mission
...-200 C at Jupiter arrival, and during solar eclipses). Contrarily, Solar Orbiter will perform in-situ and direct remote sensing measurements of the Sun at a closer distance than ever before for a European mission, reaching temperatures as high as 520...
March 2021
iPhone moment for the Earth observation industry
... data does not fulfil its potential value. An example would be a data scientist with limited geospatial and remote sensing skills who integrates the analytics from satellite data, such as the number of buildings in a city, for developing...
April 2021
Predicting dengue fever outbreaks from space
... for the impact of multiple stressors on the spread of mosquito-borne diseases is only just emerging and by using remote sensing data this work makes a major contribution to this. In data-scarce countries like Vietnam, the use of EO data...
22 December 2015
First new 'ground truth' in 40 years as Chinese rover Yuto presents analysis of moon rocks
... over the moon’s interior, Yuto has helped to solve another mystery concerning olivine at Chang'e-3's landing site. Remote sensing data showed that the site was rich in olivine as well as titanium, but, as olivine usually crystallises early...
07 August 2017
Russia and China set to sign Moon exploration deal this autumn
... to the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) with plans to create a unified system to remotely sense Earth. Glavkosmos is already in discussion with Brazil for a tender for the delivery of space images to this emerging...
