12 September 2022
Scotland’s space sector flexes its green credentials
...which addresses areas such as the environmental impacts of building, fuelling, and launching satellites, as well as the importance of promoting satellite data for environmental monitoring. Scottish Business Minister Ivan McKee said: “Scotland’s space...
April 2025
Azores rising – Portugal’s Atlantic outpost vying to become space gateway
... by the government’s Space 2030 programme - a far-reaching strategy for economic growth that leverages everything from satellite data services to in-orbit manufacturing initiatives. The Azores, located some 1400 km west of Portugal’s capital Lisbon...
17 April 2020
A six-planet system is discovered and more could be hiding say astronomers
... discover the six-planet system. Their results were also backed up with TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) data, which also helped reveal that the density of the innermost planet resembles that of terrestrial-type world...
04 September 2020
China announces launch of a reusable experimental spacecraft
... launch surfaced early July, when eagle-eyed enthusiasts studying ESA Sentinel satellite data, noted what appeared to be modifications to a tower at China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. It was rumoured further that this was to allow a launch with...
