Specto Natura is part of the team selected by EC DG Environment to monitor Natura 2000 sites using Copernicus products The Cop4N2K project is led by space4environment of Luxembourg and includes Gisat (CZ), Bilbomatica (ES), Specto Natura (UK) and the Environment Agency of Austria. The team was awarded a service Read more…
As has become tradition, the sun shone down on the members of the British Association of Remote Sensing Companies as they gathered together at the Bluebird Restaurant on London’s King’s Road for the annual BARSC Annual General Meeting and Lunch, last week. In the impressive surroundings of the Beaufort Room, Read more…
Leonardo and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd have been awarded funding from the UK’s Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation (CEOI) to develop a new detector assembly for a low cost, world-leading Mid-Wave Infra-Red (MWIR) imager. The MWIR imager will be designed to achieve 3.5m GSD and to fit into a small Read more…
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has today released an image and video of the Earth captured from Low Earth Orbit by a commercial grade Raspberry Pi camera and computer on board a Demonstration of Technology satellite called DoT-1, launched on a Soyuz rocket in July 2019. The image is of Read more…
The UK Space Agency (UKSA) invites proposals for space technology research and development projects to the National Space Technology Programme (NSTP) – Grants for Exploratory Ideas. This NSTP Call aims to develop the capability of the UK space sector by providing seed funding for early stage innovative ideas. Project proposals Read more…
This month, the Space Industry Bulletin launches the Space Industry Barometer, a quarterly business survey to gauge sentiment within the sector over the current business issues. The bulletin would like your views to help build a comprehensive picture of the space sector’s challenges. The survey is anonymous and will take Read more…
BARSC Member, CGI has announced a cash offer of 254.15 pence per share to acquire the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of SCISYS, also a BARSC Member, through its wholly owned indirect subsidiary CGI Group Holdings Europe Limited. The offer is unanimously recommended by the SCISYS Read more…
The successful launch on 24 June 2019 EST of 6 satellites for the FORMOSAT-7 joint US-Taiwanese weather forecasting constellation marks the start of another SSTL-enabled space mission, a cause for celebration at SSTL’s UK HQ. The launch on the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre was attended Read more…
The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) Space Programme is seeking proposals that can aid UK Defence and Security to develop future space technologies. They are looking for innovative solutions that can address the following challenge areas; Technologies for defending future UK space assets Novel sensing and Intelligence, Surveillance and Read more…
A new National Space Council, to be established later this year, will provide strategic leadership on space across government, coordinating all aspects of the UK’s space strategy, investment and use of space through a new National Space Framework. Science Minister Chris Skidmore said: “As we approach the 50th anniversary of Read more…