Munich, 23.07.2014 – European Space Imaging can now process 40 cm imagery from WorldView satellites at their local Direct Access Facility (DAF) based near Munich. Imagery at 40 cm is available from archive data or for new tasking orders from the WorldView constellation. The above image of London illustrates the benefits of the higher resolution […]
Global Forest Watch Fires Launches by Digitalglobe
An interesting update from our friends at Digitalglobe: DigitalGlobe and World Resources Institute (WRI) today launched Global Forest Watch Fires, an online platform for monitoring and responding to forest and land fires in Southeast Asia. It features near real-time satellite images from DigitalGlobe, fire alerts from NASA, an SMS (phone-texting) alert system and mapping of […]
SSTL announces the successful launch of UK in-orbit demonstrator satellite, TechDemoSat-1
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) today announced the successful launch of TechDemoSat-1, an in-orbit technology demonstration mission for innovative UK spacecraft equipment and software. The spacecraft was launched into 635km sun-synchronous orbit on board a Soyuz-2 launch vehicle with a Fregat upper stage from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 15:58:28 UTC yesterday, 8 July […]
Ball-built spacecraft significantly expands DigitalGlobe’s constellation capabilities
WorldView-3 Remote Sensing Spacecraft Arrives at Vandenberg Air Force Base for Mid-August Launch
Get your High-Res Challenge proposal over the line
Györk Fülöp offers his tips for completing European Space Imaging & Skybox Imaging High-Res Challenge idea proposal You already logged on and registered. You have filled in some information but are procrastinating about finishing the final details. The deadline is looming. With only two weeks before the close of the European Space Imaging & Skybox […]
First images from SPOT 7 satellite within three days after launch
First images from SPOT 7 satellite within three days after launch — SPOT 6/SPOT 7 constellation in place now, designed for unparalleled high-resolution national coverage
NASA Launches New Carbon-Sensing Mission to Monitor Earth’s Breathing
NASA successfully launched its first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide at 2:56 a.m. PDT (5:56 a.m. EDT) Wednesday.
Launch of SPOT 7 completes Airbus Defence and Space observation satellite constellation
The SPOT 7 Earth-observation satellite, designed and developed by Airbus Defence and Space, was launched successfully from the space centre in India It will join SPOT 6 and Pléiades 1A and 1B in orbit, thereby completing the optical satellite constellation operated by Airbus Defence and Space This constellation is one-of-a-kind in the optical satellite imagery market […]
NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Marks First Martian Year with Mission Successes
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover will complete a Martian year — 687 Earth days — on June 24, having accomplished the mission’s main goal of determining whether Mars once offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life. One of Curiosity’s first major findings after landing on the Red Planet in August 2012 was an ancient riverbed at its […]
Home run for the European Space Imaging & Skybox Imaging High-Res Challenge
Munich, 23.6.2014 – Skybox Imaging has been all over the news lately because of their innovative satellite imaging constellation which, when complete, will contain 24 satellites giving the capability to image sites multiple times daily. What potential applications will such a service inspire? This is the central question for the European Space Imaging & Skybox […]