In a statement released by the company, Maxar Technologies has reported that their WorldView-4 satellite has stopped collecting imagery due to a failure in its control moment gyros. The statement reads: Efforts are ongoing in conjunction with its suppliers in an attempt to restore satellite functionality, but thus far these Read more…
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has today released the first Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images taken from orbit by NovaSAR-1, a technology demonstration mission launched into a 580km sun-synchronous orbit on 16 September 2018. The S-Band SAR images released today have been acquired using the satellite’s stripmap mode at 6 Read more…
Sentinel-5P is the latest satellite mission of the European Earth observation programme, Copernicus. The satellite was launched on 13 October to monitor the atmosphere and map gases and particles that pollute the air. Less than two months after its launch, the Sentinel-5P has already delivered its first images of air Read more…
BARSC member and ‘New Space’ pioneer Earth-i today announced that images and video from its new prototype satellite due for launch early January 2018 will be managed, catalogued and geometrically corrected using software from Swedish photogrammetry and imagery specialist, Spacemetric. Earth-i is building the first commercial constellation in the world Read more…
BARSC member Geocento dicuss the available commercial optical and radar imagery collected by satellite suppliers in 2017. The available catalogues of these images are scanned and harvested multiple times per day by Geocento’s web application EarthImages, so that they can be discovered and ordered through the platform. Imagery is shown Read more…
BARSC member Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has been selected by Ki Ho Military Acquisition Consulting Inc. (KIHOMAC) to provide a system to deliver real-time satellite data from NOAA’s newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-16) that will support critical launch decisions at Cape Canaveral, Florida. “Weather conditions have an enormous impact on Read more…
British ‘New Space’ pioneer and BARSC member Earth–i has announced that it has ordered the first five satellites from SSTL (Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd) for its new Earth Observation (EO) constellation. Earth-i is building the first constellation in the world able to provide full-colour video – and the first European-owned Read more…
BARSC member, The Satellite Applications Catapult, will be hosting a Satuccino from 2:30pm on Wednesday 6 December 2017 at their offices in Harwell, Oxfordshire. The Satuccino is a specially designed space industry networking event for space technology and satellite application sector companies engaged with the Satellite Applications Catapult. Satuccino gives Read more…
A team supported by the Portuguese branch of BASRC member Elecnor Deimos have won 1st prize in the ESA Sentinel Small Sat Challenge and the Copernicus Masters Award. Deimos Engenhaira, in collaboration with the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) and the Insititute of Space Studies Catalonia (IEEC), were presented with Read more…
The world record for the number of small satellites launched in a single calendar year was broken in the third quarter of 2017, according to the second Small Satellite Marketing Intelligence Report published by the Satellite Applications Catapult. In the period, July to September 2017, 84 small satellites (weighing less Read more…