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The first artificial intelligence to be carried onboard a European Earth observation mission will be launched this week from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The pioneering artificial intelligence technology named ɸ-sat-1, pronounced PhiSat-1, will be the first experiment to improve the efficiency of sending vast quantities of data back to Earth. To source
There is always a sunrise and sunset happening somewhere on our planet. Soon ESA’s newest CubeSat – flying aboard Europe’s Vega launcher this Friday – will be keeping watch. The miniature PICASSO mission will use the filtering of sunlight by Earth’s atmosphere to check the health of our protective ozone layer. To source
Video: 00:56:23 Replay of a discussion between European experts on how to reinvent your business model in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Recorded on 15 June 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has induced and accelerated innovation and change within many space-enabled businesses as well as the space industry as a whole. In our fifth and […]
Image: The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor or ASIM , mounted outside the European laboratory of the International Space Station, enters its second year of science operations. Launched in April 2018, the payload began operating on 14 June 2018 and has been studying thunderstorms 400 km above Earth ever since. Specifically, ASIM is on the hunt for […]
ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has detected glowing green oxygen in Mars’ atmosphere – the first time that this emission has been seen around a planet other than Earth. To source
Due to launch aboard Friday’s Vega rocket, ESA’s Simba CubeSat is a tiny mission with a big ambition: to measure one of the fundamental drivers of climate change in a new way. The 30-cm long nanosatellite will turn from Earth to space to the Sun and back again, to calculate our planet’s overall energy budget. […]
The Spanish high-resolution land imaging mission, known as SEOSAT-Ingenio, is currently at the premises of Airbus in Madrid, Spain and is ready to be packed and shipped to Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana – following the mission’s latest successful tests and final technical review. This is another significant milestone in preparing the Earth observation satellite’s […]
ESA’s Sun-exploring mission Solar Orbiter has made its first close approach to the star on June 15, getting as close as 77 million kilometres to its surface, about half the distance between the Sun and Earth. To source
Week in images: 8-12 June 2020 Discover our week through the lens To source
The ESAIL microsatellite for tracking ships worldwide – developed under an ESA Partnership Project – has completed its accommodation on Vega’s new dispenser for small satellites and is ready for launch. To source
Video: 00:03:40 Vega’s new SSMS dispenser provides routine affordable access to space for small satellites. To source
Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Barcelona – the second largest city in Spain. On the northeast coast of the Iberian Peninsula, Barcelona occupies a low plateau along the Mediterranean coastal plain. The city and its red roofs contrast with the forested hills and the sea that surround it. The famous Avinguda Diagonal […]
Video: 00:03:22 In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Barcelona, the second largest city in Spain. See also Barcelona, Spain to download the image To source