The British Association of Remote Sensing Companies George Freeman MP Minister for Science, Research and Innovation, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET Dear Mr Freeman, People working in the British space-based Earth Observation industry are in imminent danger of losing Read more…
ESA statement regarding cooperation with Russia following a meeting with Member States on 28 February 2022 28 February 2022 We deplore the human casualties and tragic consequences of the war in Ukraine. We are giving absolute priority to taking proper decisions, not only for the sake of our workforce involved Read more…
SSTL is holding an online workshop to introduce the HydroGNSS mission, the science behind the retrievals, the products anticipated at Data Levels 2 and 2, their relationship to Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) and the plans for calibration and validation of the results. The workshop will discuss lessons learnt from previous Read more…
The LEOPARD (Low Earth Orbit Pursuit for Active Debris Removal) study will define concepts for de-orbiting 2 uncooperative UK space assets from low earth orbit Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has been selected to lead a UK Space Agency study to define the mission requirements for a complex mission to Read more…
New financial safety net will provide certainty for successful Horizon Europe applicants as association delays continue. Successful applicants for Horizon Europe grant awards will be guaranteed funding regardless of the outcome of the UK’s efforts to associate to Horizon Europe, under a new scheme announced by the government today (29 Read more…
ICEYE flood analysis will support the delivery of portfolio-level property loss estimates to the Lloyd’s market via the MIS GEO platform. ICEYE, the global leader in persistent monitoring with radar satellite imaging and a provider of flood hazard data, has today announced an agreement with McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS) providing flood hazard Read more…
HOW SPACE AND GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE CAN HELP INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE This unmissable event will showcase how location data collected on earth and images captured from space can help tackle climate change. The free-to-attend Space and Geospatial Virtual Pavilion for COP26, from KTN, will take place from 1st Read more…
ESA signed a contract that brings the ICEYE constellation of small satellites into the fleet of missions contributing to Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring programme. As a commercial provider of satellite radar imagery, ICEYE is a perfect example of European New Space being implemented within Copernicus. With the contract signed during Read more…
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has secured European Space Agency InCubed programme financial and technical support to demonstrate a high throughput, flexible and intelligent payload downlink chain for small Earth Observation satellites. Currently advanced and innovative satellite imaging payloads are producing data with ever increasing dimensionality, volume and rates which Read more…
The first report on pay in the UK space sector has been published today by the Space Skills Alliance and the Space Growth Partnership’s Space Skills Advisory Panel to coincide with the 2021 UK Space Conference. You can read it here: spaceskills.org/pay-report. The survey of more than 1500 people across industry, Read more…