EUMETSAT Hosts Pan-European Young Meteorologist's Competition
EUMETSAT will celebrate the launch of Meteosat-9, by sponsoring a Young Meteorologist's Competition promoting meteorology and the many uses of weather satellite data to school students and teachers. EUMETSAT is launching an Internet-based pan-European school competition for 15 and 16 year olds aimed at identifying Europe's most talented and... view more... (2004-10-26)
ESA and NASDA complete successful data relay tests between Artemis and Adeos II
ESA INFO 08-2003. Another successful inter-satellite link achieved with Artemis! After a world premiere laser link with Spot 4 in November 2001 and a relay with Envisat last month, Artemis has transmitted data from the Japanese Earth observation satellite Adeos II. ESA and NASDA, the Japanese space agency, had agreed to cooperate on a data... view more... (2003-04-08)
Fraunhofer inducted into Hall of Fame
Digital radio ensures interference-free radio reception in CD quality. To achieve digital-radio standards nevertheless requires a great deal of development work since the transmitter and receiver systems greatly differ from conventional, analog devices. During the conception phase of the XM Satellite Radio project, a Fraunhofer team convincingly... view more... (2002-06-07)
New research confirms increased greening
Greening seems to have increased during the 1980s and 1990s in the northern hemisphere from the arctic regions down to the 35th parallel of latitude (roughly southern Europe). This has been shown by measurements from space satellites. Some observers, however, have doubted the reliability of these measurements. In the latest issue of Science, a... view more... (2002-06-04)
NASA's Infrared Satellite Sees Warmer Cloud Tops in Tropical Storm Marty
Marty is struggling to hold onto tropical storm status, and things are just going to get worse for him, as he moves into an area with stronger wind shear. Infrared satellite imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed that Marty's thunderstorm cloud tops are not as cold as they were earlier today, September 17, and his cloud pattern has become a... view more... (2009-09-18)
Another world first for Artemis: a laser link with an aircraft
Artemis, the European Space Agency Advanced Relay and Technology Mission Satellite, successfully relayed optical laser links from an aircraft in early December. These airborne laser links, established over a distance of 40 000 km during two flights at altitudes of 6000 and 10 000 metres, represent a world first. view more (2006-12-19)
Alcatel Space and Astrium forge agreement for AlphaBus
The European satellite communications industry today reached a landmark of cooperation at Le Bourget air show in France. The accord regards collaboration on large space platform AlphaBus. The two major satellite manufacturers Alcatel Space and Astrium, made the announcement jointly from the European Space Agency (ESA) pavilion of the Paris... view more... (2003-06-23)
Hyper-accurate clocks - the beating heart of Galileo
Travellers have relied on accurate timekeeping for navigation since the development of the marine chronometer in the eighteenth century. view more (2007-05-11)
Warming oceans threaten Antarctic glaciers
Scientists have identified four Antarctic glaciers that pose a threat to future sea levels using satellite observations, according to a study published in the journal Science. view more (2007-03-16)
Researcher works with European Space Agency to test moisture satellite
Europeans want to peek into our soil and see how dry we are. And an Iowa State University professor is eager to help, and even check their results. view more (2008-04-28)
Snowy owl -- a marine species?
Wildlife satellite studies could lead to a radical re-thinking about how the snowy owl fits into the Northern ecosystem. view more (2008-12-11)
More new ideas for satellite navigation systems at summer school
University students studying space or related topics met recently in Alpback, Austria for the 25th Summer School. From 17 to 26 July, two students from each of ESA's 15 Member States plus Canada, got together with 30 experts on space to discuss and develop new futuristic ideas for the innovative use of satellite navigation systems. The Summer... view more... (2001-08-10)
Long-Term ozone measurements from Space assured
The EUMETSAT Polar System, and the ESA METOP-1 Programme together form a co-operative venture between the two organisations, and lead to the launch of the first METOP satellite in mid-2003. The system provides operational meteorological data from polar orbiting satellites, to complement and complete an international system of polar satellites... view more... (2000-03-05)
DMC spacecraft ready for launch on Friday
24 September 2003 A joint team of SSTL, Nigerian and Turkish engineers have completed the preparation, test and integration of all three spacecraft due for launch onboard Kosmos at 06:09 GMT on Friday 26 September 2003. view more (2003-09-24)
MSG-1 weather satellite ready for commissioning
ESA PR 61-2002. The first of Eumetsat`s new generation of weather satellites, MSG-1, has arrived on station at 10.5°W in geostationary orbit at 36,000 kilometres above the Earth. After separation from the Ariane-5 launcher on 29 August, ESA's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt took the spacecraft under control on behalf of... view more... (2002-09-27)
Sixteenth Satellite Launch for Surrey
The latest Surrey satellite is on a radio science mission for French customer, Alcatel Espace, who are contracted to the French Ministry of Defence (DGA). view more (2000-01-12)
Golf, health and ESA
The Irish Open Golf Tournament, that took place in Cork last weekend, was the scene of some excellent golf, a welcome win for Colin Montgomerie and the first use of the Forward Emergency Control Vehicle (FECV) developed by ESA together with the Irish Southern Health Board. This strange-sounding piece of equipment, that integrates terrestrial and... view more... (2001-07-03)
Coming to a cinema near you - courtesy of ESA
We`ve got digital television. Next comes digital cinema. Thanks to ESA, cinema-goers in five European countries will be able to get an early taste of the new technology later this summer. As part of an ESA-funded project, ten cinemas in Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK will be screening movies transmitted and played digitally rather than... view more... (2002-06-25)
Galileo becomes a reality for Europe
ESA PR 33-2003. The European Space Agency is now able to finalise the conditions for participation in the Galileo navigation programme and to approve the Galileo Joint Undertaking foundation act to be soon signed by ESA and the European Union. The agreement reached among ESA member states today clears the way for the official launch of the legal... view more... (2003-05-26)
Why oceans behave like water in a bath
SATELLITE measurements of sea levels have uncovered a bizarre effect. The sea seems to be rising faster near the coast than in mid-ocean. Simon Holgate and Philip Woodworth of the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, in Bidston, UK, found this discrepancy using the Topex satellite, launched in 1992. The satellite measures sea level by bouncing... view more... (2004-04-21)
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