Following the Christmas break, the Sentinel-3A satellite has been taken out of its storage container and woken up as the campaign to prepare it for launch resumes at the Russian Plesetsk cosmodrome. Liftoff is set for 4 February. This latest satellite for Europe’s...
NASA Looks at Deadly Weather Over the US
NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM mission core satellite analyzed extreme weather that affected the U.S. over the course of five days. Heavy rainfall, flooding and tornado outbreaks affected areas of the United States from the Southwest through the...
10 Productive Years in Orbit for GIOVE-A, Galileo's Small Satellite Pathfinder
British small satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is today marking the 10th year of in-orbit operations from its GIOVE-A satellite, the pathfinder mission for Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation programme. Since retirement from its...
Deal Sealed for New Sentinel-1 Satellites
December 15, 2015 — ESA has ensured the continuation of the Sentinel-1 Earth observation satellite series for Europe’s Copernicus environmental programme by ordering two more satellites. The €400 million contract was signed today with Thales Alenia Space of...
Sentinel-3A on its Way
November 23, 2015 —The latest satellite for the European Commission’s Copernicus environmental programme has left France bound for the Plesetsk launch site in Russia and launch late next month. Carrying a suite of state-of-the-art instruments, Sentinel-3A is set...
Euroconsult’s Latest Report Targets Satellite Value Chain
Paris, Washington D.C., Montreal, Yokohama, November 12, 2015 — Euroconsult's latest report, Satellite Value Chain: The Snapshot 2015, brings together a selection of key trends and indicators on supply and demand from Euroconsult's 2015 reports complemented by...
Sentinel-3A Set for Launch
November6, 2015 — Sentinel-3A's preparation is finished and the satellite will soon be shipped to the Russian Cosmodrome of Plesetsk, in Northern Russia for its launch on top of a Rockot planned end of this year. Carrying a suite of state-of-the-art instruments,...
African Satellite Constellation Expecting New Addition
Image-sensor developer Teledyne Dalsa is partnering with South Africa-based Denel Spaceteq, a high-performance satellite systems and solutions provider to the African and international aerospace market, to develop a new multispectral image sensor for advanced Earth observations.
exactEarth Launches Advanced Equatorial AIS Satellite
Cambridge, ON, September 28, 2015– exactEarth Ltd., the leading provider of Satellite AIS data services, announced the successful launch of an advanced AIS satellite, exactView-9 (EV9), expanding its exactView™ global vessel monitoring constellation to eight...
Big Shake Next for Air Pollution Satellite
September 25, 2015 — The launch of Sentinel-5 Precursor is planned for next spring so the satellite is being put through its paces to make sure it is fit for liftoff and life in orbit tracking air pollution. Vibration and acoustic tests are next up. Sentinel-5...
