WASHINGTON — The European Union and the United Kingdom have reached a deal that will allow the UK to resume participation in the EU elements of the Copernicus Earth observation program. The European Commission and the UK government announced Sept. 7 that they had completed an agreement to permit the […]
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WASHINGTON — The European Commission awarded a contract to Arianespace Nov. 29 for launches of five Copernicus Earth observation spacecraft on Vega C rockets between 2024 and 2026. The contract, Arianespace Chief Executive Stéphane Israël said in a press conference, secures the position of the European Commission, which operates both […]
WASHINGTON — With a deadline for an agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union on British involvement in, and funding for, Copernicus come and gone, the European Space Agency is pressing ahead on several missions in the hopes a deal can eventually be reached. British and European negotiators […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Iceye won a contract to provide data from its constellation of small synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellites to Copernicus, the European Union program aimed at providing continuous, global Earth observation. With the announcement, Iceye becomes the first entrepreneurial SAR company to be designated a Copernicus Contributing Mission, meaning […]
WASHINGTON — The new head of the European Space Agency has outlined his priorities for the next several years, ranging from improving relations with the European Union to increasing commercialization activities. The ESA Agenda 2025 document, released by the agency April 7, is an expression of how its new director […]
TAE Technologies’s Norman device can keep a ring of plasma spinning 100 times longer than its natural lifetime. Next stop fusion? TAE Technologies By Daniel CleryApr. 8, 2021 , 3:00 PM A private company betting on an innovative fusion technology announced today that its latest device can sustain high temperatures […]
See the moon with ‘superhuman vision’: Astrophotographer snaps incredible photo of our lunar satellite with inverted colours to enhance the texture Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy snapped the incredible image this week He altered the image to highlight things the human eye can’t see The incredible picture was created by processing the […]
Ships have also been accumulating in the Gulf of Suez, which runs into the Red Sea in the south. Satellite images taken by the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission show the stark difference in ship traffic before and after the Ever Given got stuck. The photo on the left […]