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Tailoring Galileo HAS To Danish National Reference Frame

Tailoring Galileo HAS To Danish National Reference Frame

The European Space Agency-funded DANGO project has developed a method for transforming Galileo high-accuracy service (HAS) signals for use in the Danish national reference frame (ETRS89DK). Speaking at the recent final presentation of the DANGO project, DTU (Technical University of Denmark) Space Research Assistant Magdalena Golofit said, “HAS PPP corrections are delivered within the framework ...
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Arianespace Will Launch The EU’s Copernicus EO Sentinel-1c Satellite

This mission will provide crucial environmental data for the planet, while also carrying out Arianespace’s commitment of guaranteeing Europe’s independent access to space. Sentinel-1C is the 6th Sentinel satellite launched by Arianespace. This VV25 mission will mark the return-to-flight of the Vega C launcher. Arianespace’s next mission is scheduled for Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024, at ...
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Earthcare Offers A Sneak Peek Into Earth’s Energy Balance

EarthCARE Offers A Sneak Peek Into Earth’s Energy Balance

Offering a foretaste of what’s to come once it is fully commissioned, ESA’s EarthCARE satellite has returned the first images from its broadband radiometer instrument. These initial images offer a tantalising glimpse into the intricacies of our planet’s energy balance – a delicate balance that governs our climate. Earth’s energy balance accounts the amount of ...
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New Satellite To Show How AI Advances Earth Observation

New Satellite To Show How AI Advances Earth Observation

ESA’s new Φsat-2 mission, launching in the coming weeks, will push the boundaries of AI for Earth observation – demonstrating the transformative potential of AI for space technology. The integration of AI has significantly enhanced Earth observation. AI capabilities allow for more data to be processed quickly and accurately, helping to enable to transform vast ...
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ESA-Funded ADVENT Project Demonstrates VDES-Based PNT

ESA-Funded ADVENT Project Demonstrates VDES-Based PNT

In the maritime sector, work is ongoing towards the identification and development of alternative PNT (positioning, navigation and timing) solutions, that is, solutions that are not wholly dependent on GNSS-based technologies. “The VHF data exchange system [VDES], is being considered as a source of alternative PNT [A-PNT] for maritime,” said Michael Turner of GMV NSL, ...
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EarthCARE Launched To Study Role Of Clouds And Aerosols In Earth's Climate

EarthCARE Launched To Study Role Of Clouds And Aerosols In Earth’s Climate

ESA’s EarthCARE satellite, poised to revolutionise our understanding of how clouds and aerosols affect our climate, has been launched. This extraordinary satellite embarked on its journey into space on 29 May at 00:20 CEST (28 May, 15:20 local time) aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US. Just 10 ...
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ESA-Funded Project Advances Hybrid GNSS/5G Positioning Technology

The advantage of incorporating 5G within a global positioning solution lies in its extensive coverage and accessibility, especially in urban areas, where GNSS signal quality can be significantly compromised. The NAVISP-funded HYPER-5G project was aimed at studying, designing and developing algorithms and software needed to drive a precise positioning engine that would use both multi-constellation ...
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ESA Will Launch Genesis System To Measure Earth With Millimeter Precision

ESA Will Launch Genesis System To Measure Earth With Millimeter Precision

European Space Agency (ESA) allocated €76.6 million to develop the Genesis orbital observatory, which will be able to determine the position of objects on Earth with an accuracy of one millimeter. Another €156.8 million has been allocated for the launch of a low-orbit constellation of devices to test and improve the reliability of satellite navigation. ...
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Heritage ERS-2 Satellite Set To Reenter Earth’s Atmosphere

Heritage ERS-2 Satellite Set To Reenter Earth’s Atmosphere

After a 16-year working life, the second European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-2) is making its final descent into Earth’s atmosphere. ERS-2 returned information that influenced the perception of climate change and the understanding of the planet. The European Space Agency (ESA) retired ERS-2 in 2011. It was originally launch in 1995. The Space Debris Office ...
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ESA’s Cloud Mission In The Limelight

ESA’s Cloud Mission In The Limelight

Dedicated to delivering a wealth of new information on exactly how clouds and aerosols affect Earth’s climate, ESA’s EarthCARE satellite has had the chance to show off prior to engineers embarking upon the careful task of packing it up for its journey to the launch site in the US. Carrying four different instruments, this remarkable ...
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ESA And EC To Unite On Climate Action From Space

ESA and the Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action (CLIMA) are, therefore, seizing the opportunity to harness their combined expertise and resources to bring about transformative change, not least in the context of the EU’s Copernicus space programme and ESA’s Space for a Green Future Accelerator. ESA and CLIMA are reinforcing their cooperation by working together ...
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Open Cosmos’ MANTIS Satellite Prepped For Upcoming Launch

Open Cosmos’ MANTIS Satellite Prepped For Upcoming Launch

MANTIS was successfully integrated with its EXOpod Nova deployment system in Berlin, provided by Exolaunch as part of their mission management and integration service, prior to completing its integrations with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 before lift-off from Vandenberg Space Force Base. MANTIS, which stands for Mission Agile Nanosatellite for Terrestrial Imagery Services, will be the first ...
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Mapping Methane The Trio Of Sentinel Satellites Targeting Super-emitters From Space

Mapping Methane: The Trio Of Sentinel Satellites Targeting Super-emitters From Space

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and is the second-largest contributor to climate warming after carbon dioxide. A tonne of methane, despite its shorter lifespan of about 10 years in the atmosphere, can retain an astounding 30 times more heat than a tonne of carbon dioxide over the course of a century. This means that ...
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Galileo Becomes Faster For Every User

Galileo Becomes Faster For Every User

ESA satnav receiver vans – driving between the busy heart of Rotterdam, quiet countryside, and the Agency’s ESTEC technical centre – have confirmed that Galileo signals now provide a first position fix more rapidly, while also offering improved robustness in challenging environments and streamlined access to time information. The improvement comes from a new so-called ...
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Advanced Aircraft Tracking Will Come Live From Space

Advanced Aircraft Tracking Will Come Live From Space

Satellites will soon be used to keep an independent eye on airborne planes, under a deal agreed between ESA and Spire Global, a company that provides space-based data, analytics and space services. Spire will design an advanced civilian aviation surveillance system that uses a constellation of satellites to monitor flights globally in real time, as ...
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Australia’s SmartSat Signs Agreement To Collaborate On Earth Observation

SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (SmartSat), Australia’s space research centre, has signed a new agreement with European Space Agencys (ESA) Philab to collaborate on Earth Observation (EO) research. The European Space Agency’s Philab is a leading research centre with a mission to accelerate the future of Earth Observation through transformational innovations and new technologies, including artificial ...
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European Satellite Strikes Lightning

ESA along with European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat) today have released the first animations from the Lightning Imager onboard the first Meteosat Third Generation satellite, which launched on 13 December 2022. The Lightning Imager, built by Leonardo, can continuously detect rapid flashes of lighting in Earth’s atmosphere whether day or night ...
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ESA Backs Greek Firms’ And Universities’ CubeSats

Seven CubeSat missions that demonstrate a variety of services including connectivity and secure communications are being developed by small and medium-sized companies and universities in Greece, following an open call and selection by ESA. The initiative underpins efforts – led by ESA on behalf of the Greek Ministry of Digital Governance – to expand the ...
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Galileo Second Generation Enters Full Development Phase

ESA Director of Navigation, Javier Benedicto, invited Thales Alenia Space (Italy), Airbus Defence and Space (Germany) and Thales Six GTS (France) to sign respective contracts to initiate System Engineering Support for the next generation of Europe’s navigation satellite system. With 28 satellites in orbit, Galileo provides meter-level accuracy to more than four billion users around ...
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European Environment And Health Atlas Goes Live

European Environment And Health Atlas Goes Live

The interactive online tool, a first on such a scale for all of Europe, allows users to visualise how the environment around them affects their health and well-being via set of detailed maps. It covers topics like air quality, noise and quietness, green and blue spaces and climate change throughout the member and collaborating countries ...

Philippines And EU Join Forces For Better Response To Natural Disasters And Climate Change

Officials from the Philippine Space Agency, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and the European Union (EU) launched on 24 April 2023 the Copernicus Capacity Support Action Programme for the Philippines (CopPhil) worth approximately Php 610 million or €10 million. The first space cooperation programme in the region, this new initiative will help Philippine ...
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Water-Tracking Satellite Reveals First Views

Water-Tracking Satellite Reveals First Views

The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission—led by NASA and the Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES)—has sent back some of its first glimpses of water on the planet’s surface, showing ocean currents like the Gulf Stream in unprecedented detail. The spatial resolution of SWOT ocean measurements is 10 times greater than the composite ...
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La Nueva Constelación De Satélites IRIDE Para Vigilar Italia Y Europa, Será Construida Por Thales Alenia Space

Con los contratos obtenidos de la ESA, Thales Alenia Space suministrará un primer lote de seis pequeños satélites con radar de apertura sintética (SAR) y un satélite basado en tecnología óptica para la constelación italiana de observación de la Tierra, IRIDE. Los satélites se construirán en Italia bajo la responsabilidad de Thales Alenia Space y ...
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CASSINI Hackathon I Migliori Talenti Europei Si Sfidano Tra Satelliti E Intelligence

CASSINI Hackathon: I Migliori Talenti Europei Si Sfidano Tra Satelliti E Intelligence

Tre giorni di tempo per sviluppare i propri progetti e sfidarsi nel realizzare applicazioni basate su dati e servizi satellitari dell’Unione Europea con l’obiettivo di creare soluzioni innovative per migliorare la sicurezza e la difesa in Europa. Tre le sfide sulle quali cimentarsi: mobilità sulla terraferma, sicurezza in mare, protezione delle infrastrutture critiche. Il CASSINI ...
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Erdbeben In Türkei Und Syrien Hat Gelände Langfristig Verändert

Erdbeben In Türkei Und Syrien Hat Gelände Langfristig Verändert

Nun vermeldet die Europäische Raumfahrtbehörde (ESA), dass die Erdbeben offenbar das Terrain in der Katastrophenregion langfristig verändert haben. So habe sich die Küstenstadt İskenderun stellenweise abgesenkt, was zu Überschwemmungen geführt habe. Zudem drohen in der Region zahlreiche Hänge abzurutschen. Nach dem Beben stellten 17 Weltraumorganisationen insgesamt 350 Satellitenbilder aus der Krisenregion zusammen, damit die Schäden ...
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Galileo High Accuracy Service Now Operational, Providing Corrections Worldwide For Free

The Galileo High Accuracy Service (HAS) is officially available, becoming the first GNSS to offer free precise point positioning (PPP) corrections worldwide via both the Galileo signal in space (E6-B) and the internet. The announcement was made Tuesday during the 2023 European Space Conference in Brussels, Belgium. The EU agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA), ...
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European Space Agency Backs Geospatial Project To Protect Utilities

MGISS, a UK geospatial company, aims to understand how satellite imagery can identify areas where developments could disrupt gas and water supply. The Interruption Prevention Alert Service project will use satellite data and services to automatically detect changes to the built environment in order to prevent outages in critical utilities. The company argued that a ...
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ESPECIAL: Panamá Prevé Potenciación De Posibilidades Con “Hub” Digital Copernicus

La operación del “hub” (centro de conexiones) digital Copernicus en Panamá, mediante el cual la Unión Europea (UE) pone a disposición información de un conjunto de satélites para la observación de la Tierra, potenciará al país como un “hub” en diferentes campos, al aprovechar su estratégica posición geográfica en el istmo centroamericano. Representantes del gobierno ...
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EU’s Space Research Center In Prague Opens To The Public This Week

Prague is one of the European Union’s centers for space research, but what scientists do here remains a mystery to most people. This week, however, offers a unique chance to find out more about Czechia’s role in space exploration. The European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) will have an open house at its ...
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Celestia UK Will Develop LEO Satellite PNT System With ESA Funding

ESA has awarded an €800,000 NAVISP (Navigation, Innovation and Support Program) contract to Celestia UK for the development of an innovative PNT solution, based on LEO satellite constellations for 5G networks and applications. The project will use LEO satellite signals to provide a resilient position and time reference for 5G networks, boosting the reliability and ...
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