This partnership is the culmination of years of work and over €50 million investment by ESA, Inmarsat and more than 30 partners to develop the Iris program easyJet announced it is the first airline partner of the ground-breaking Iris program by Inmarsat and the European Space Agency (ESA), which uses the latest generation of satellite technology to […]
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Featurette: Maxar’s WeatherDesk predicts a significant decline in the Ukrainian crop harvests due to Russian attack… world food supply affected
Ukraine’s Minister of Agrarian Policy promoted the country’s agriculture capabilities in a March 2021 Atlantic Council article: the country’s active agricultural area is larger than Italy and it is one of the world’s top three grain exporters. However, Ukraine’s claim as the “breadbasket of Europe” is threatened by Russia’s invasion, which started in February of […]
UK Satnav signal generated in new test by Inmarsat, Goonhilly and GMVNSL will provide safety-critical capabilities
The signal, being broadcast in coordination with the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Union Space Program Agency (EUSPA), is now stable and operational, enabling on-going testing and validation by industry, regulators, and users. An Inmarsat-led team of companies in the UK has begun broadcasting a satellite navigation […]
Terran Orbital Integrates Fleet Space, GeoOptics, And NASA Satellites Aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 Prior to Transporter-5 Launch
Terran Orbital designs, builds, and integrates satellite solutions that help solve some of the world’s most complex problems…” Terran Orbital Corporation, a global provider of satellite solutions, primarily serving the United States aerospace and defense industry, announced the successful integration of six Terran Orbital designed and built satellites aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket prior […]
Thales Alenia Space Satellites Are Honored At Prix Bulles Cardin Awards For Surveying The Planet’s Changing Climate
Some unexpected encounters, such as that between Pierre Cardin and Thales Alenia Space, open up new avenues for raising public awareness of the urgent need to develop a profitable and virtuous ecology. The key role of satellites in surveying Earth and the impacts of climate change on its environment was in the spotlight recently at […]
AAC Clyde Space’s Follow-On Order For Europe’s New Weather Satellites, MetOp-SG
The MWIs will provide cloud and precipitation products and all-weather surface imagery to support numerical weather predictions at regional and global scales. Omnisys, AAC Clyde Space’s new subsidiary, secured an EUR 0.47 M (approx. SEK 4.9 M) order to deliver strategic spare parts to Airbus Defence and Space for Europe’s next generation of meteorological satellites, […]
NOAA Is Predicting A Below-Normal 2022 Central Pacific Hurricane Season
There is a 60% chance of below-normal tropical cyclone activity during the Central Pacific hurricane season this year, according to NOAA’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center and NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, divisions of the National Weather Service — the outlook also indicates a 30% chance for near-normal activity and only a 10% chance of an above-normal […]
L3Harris High-Resolution Weather Imager Captures First Image From Space
The L3Harris Technologies-built (NYSE:LHX) high-resolution Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) onboard NOAA’s newest weather satellite captured its first image since launching into space two months ago – a significant milestone prior to reaching full operational status. The GOES-18 full disk GeoColor image (see above) was captured on May 5, 2022. This type of imagery combines data […]
Tomorrow.io Reveals Plans For The 1st Commercial Multi-Sensor Weather Satellite Constellation
The Tomorrow Companies Inc. (“Tomorrow.io”) has revealed their plans to introduce microwave sounders as an additional sensor to the firm’s planned satellite constellation. The addition of microwave sounders to the company’s constellation of radar-equipped weather satellites would create the first commercial multi-sensor, weather satellite system owned and operated by a private company. The combined sensing […]
Spire Global’s New ‘Weather Insights’ Helps The Maritime Industry With Smooth Sailing
Spire collects global weather data through its fully-deployed constellation of over 100 satellites, reaching remote areas such as the open oceans that have traditionally been difficult to observe. Spire Global, Inc , provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, announced the addition of Weather Insights and Weather by Route solutions to its portfolio. These solutions […]