April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
... cover the Earth in eight shells with different altitudes and inclinations. Each dot represents one satellite. Constellations Satellite constellations are groups of spacecraft of the same design, distributed among a series of orbits in order to cover...
05 August 2016
Rio 2016 Summer Olympics Games, Brought to You by Your Local Satellite
... providers, and ground equipment suppliers), such as Eutelsat, Intelsat, SES and Telesat, operate over 150 geostationary satellites and bring connectivity to broadcasters who in turn transmit live video content of the Games to their customers around...
15 February 2017
Indian rocket sets new satellite launch record
...'s Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) at Bangalore took over the control of the satellite. In the coming days, the satellite will be brought to its final operational configuration following which it will begin to provide remote sensing...
07 August 2019
Successful launch of the second SpaceDataHighway satellite
... EDRS-A which transmits on a daily basis the images of Earth acquired by the Copernicus programme’s four Sentinel observation satellites. Since it entered service in late 2016, it has achieved more than 20,000 laser connections. The reliability rate...
May 2018
Delivering farming solutions with satellite-powered data analytics
... to get an estimate of total agricultural production. This is a very manual and time intensive process. Smart sampling, using satellite-based crop clustering techniques can be used to reduce the time for identification of these plots and optimising...
05 May 2016
Contract signed by Airbus, Space UK and ESA to deliver Biomass satellite
... of habitat loss and the possible subsequent effect this may have on biodiversity in the forest environment. The satellite is also equipped with an experimental ‘tomographic’ phase, that can provide a 3D view of the forests as it maps the topography...
