June 2022
Space activities and space debris - finding an ethical balance
...environment from limitless human activity is both a practical and ethical priority A second major issue concerns the monitoring of orbital debris, incredibly important for making informed and targeted decisions. Despite the existence of several space...
May 2024
Prioritising space solutions to accelerate sustainable development
...kind of risks? In my opinion, satellites have got a direct role to play in, for example, remote container management and in monitoring the chain from farm to fork. Companies aren’t obliged to use these technologies, however. Precision farming equates...
03 March 2016
Sentinel-3A Delivers First Images
... of all the Copernicus Sentinels. It is capable of taking systematic measurements of the Earth's oceans, land, ice and atmosphere to monitor large-scale global dynamics and provide critical near-realtime information for ocean and weather forecasting...
23 June 2021
ESA and EU embark on a new space programme
...guarantee enhanced continuity of current data. Such missions will monitor various aspects of climate change and will support the ... its leading role in tackling climate change, monitoring biodiversity and supporting disaster relief. Galileo is ...
June 2015
The day Philae landed: how a rough touchdown still made history at the Rosetta Mission
...the gas into the pipes leading to the closed valve. Sensors monitor the pressure in the tank and in the pipe. After ...the available data during the bounce. Minute after minute we monitored the communication link status and the rotation; one of these ...
September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
... LEON2-FT microprocessor and first Active Pixel Sensor startracker, and in 2013 Proba-V took on the global land monitoring task previously undertaken by France’s Spot satellites, while also performing the first detection of aircraft ADS-B signals...
