Satellites help ensure efficient use of pesticides
A new service, developed in the framework of an ESA-supported project, is using satellite images to compare agricultural crop sites across Europe in order to ensure the more efficient use of pesticides. view more (2007-10-16)
One year in orbit for first DMC satellite - AlSAT-1
AlSAT-1, the first satellite launched for the international Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC), has completed one year of orbital operations. The satellite, built under a know-how transfer programme at Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), was launched on 28 November 2002 for Centre Nationale Techniques Spatiales in Algeria. The first... view more... (2004-01-15)
March launch planned for ESA's gravity mission
ESA is now gearing up to return to Russia to oversee preparations for the launch of its GOCE satellite - now envisaged for launch on 16 March 2009. view more (2009-02-05)
Last call for Marecs B2
One of ESA’s longest-serving and hardest-working communications satellites is being put into retirement after years of dedicated service. Marecs B2, built as a reserve satellite but launched in 1984 to replace the failed Marecs B, had a nominal life-span of seven years. Now, after 18 years of sterling service to the world’s sea-going... view more... (2002-01-23)
Galileo Concession: shortlisting to proceed
The Galileo Joint Undertaking is officially issuing a first invitation to tender for the Galileo Concession. The invitation is published today in the Official Journal of the European Union and on the GJU website. The Joint Undertaking, based in Brussels and established by the European Commission and the European Space Agency, will then be able... view more... (2003-10-17)
Artemis assists emergency services to fight Portuguese fires
Fire fighters tackling the blazes that have ravaged Portugal are doing so with the aid of a satellite data-link. For the first time, ESA's satellite Artemis has been used to support an emergency request under the International Charter on "Space and Major Disasters". Portugal's civil protection unit (SNPC) was able to receive... view more... (2003-08-20)
Navigate via the web with the SisNet receiver
Knowing your precise position anytime via the internet is now possible thanks to the Signal in Space through Internet (SisNet) technology developed by the European Space Agency. This technology combines the powerful capabilities of satellite navigation and the internet. As a result, the highly accurate navigation information that comes from the... view more... (2002-09-09)
Big and small dents
The Earth explorer satellite GOCE (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer), built by the European Space Agency ESA, was successfully launched today at 15:21 GMT from the Russian Cosmodrome Plesetsk. GOCE is the first satellite mission within the framework of the Living Planet Programme of ESA and will map Earth's gravity field... view more... (2009-03-18)
50 years after Sputnik
In cosmic terms, half a century is a mere blink of an eyelid. But for mankind, much has happened in the 50 years since Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, was launched by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957. view more (2007-10-03)
Ocean satellite launch critical to Australian science
A new earth observing satellite being launched in California today will help guide future Australian ocean and climate science. view more (2008-06-23)
NASA's Aqua Satellite Gets Two Views of Category Four Hurricane Bill
Hurricane Bill has become a powerhouse in the Atlantic Ocean and NASA satellites are providing forecasters with important information to help their forecasts. Bill is now a category four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale and is expected to strengthen as it nears Bermuda, and NASA's Aqua satellite captured two views of his cloud cover. view more (2009-08-19)
Typhoon Morakot Cloud Top Extent Doubled In Size in One Day
Satellite imagery over the last two days has shown Typhoon Morakot to be a monster, and over the last two days, NASA satellites have confirmed the typhoon doubled its size! view more (2009-08-07)
UW-Madison tools help track Hurricane Ophelia
As Hurricane Ophelia is set to make landfall on the North Carolina coast on Wednesday or Thursday (Sept. 14 or 15), analysis techniques developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tropical Cyclones group in the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies are helping to predict the anticipated path of the storm. view more (2005-09-14)
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)
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