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…
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has gone live with a new Lunar Mission Builder App designed to calculate the communications service a lunar mission could receive from SSTL’s Lunar Pathfinder communications spacecraft, due to launch in 2023. The new tool is available at www.sstl.co.uk/lunarapp SSTL’s Head of Lunar Exploration, Nelly Read more…
Wednesday 1 September 2021 at 14:00. This one-hour session will include a presentation from JNCC colleagues, a demo of Jupiter notebooks using the data cube, and Q&A. Draft programme: Brief outline of the Data Cube project Analysis Ready Data (Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2) Infrastructure on JASMIN used to host and manage Read more…
The UK Space Agency has announced that imagery from the UK’s share of NovaSAR data is now available via the SeDAS portal. NovaSAR-1 is an S-band SAR satellite which has been optimised with several imaging modes, including a 6m resolution imaging mode for a range of applications, such as flood Read more…
Geospatial analysis is describing our changing physical and human landscapes like never before. The insights gained can predict patterns of human behaviour and changes on earth that most take for granted, but for Sparkgeo Inc, this is where the most valuable information is found. Sparkgeo partners with some of the world’s biggest Read more…