Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the need to fully implement the measures decided by the French government, launch campaigns underway at the Guiana Space Center (CSG) in French Guiana have been suspended, according to a statement posted by Arianaespace on 16 March 2020. These launch preparations will resume as …
Read More »C-COM Satellite Systems Reports Profitable Fiscal Year
Canada’s C-COM Satellite Systems Inc, a global provider of mobile auto-deploying satellite antenna systems, announced its financial results for the fiscal year ended 30 November 2019. The announcement was made on 16 March 2020. The company has generated revenues of CDN$13,977,909 (approximately US$9,997,630) and a net after tax profit of …
Read More »Airbus Extends Its Reach Into Precision Agriculture Solutions With AgNeo
Airbus announced on 6 March 2020 that it has launched AgNeo, its new integrated precision farming solution for commodity and permanent crops. Delivering in-season actionable information based on satellite imagery and premium agronomic analytics, AgNeo will help customers save time, optimise inputs, and increase yields. This new product leverages Airbus’ …
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Op-Ed: We Must Fight Climate Change Like It’s World War III–Here Are 4 Potent Weapons To Deploy
Lukas Coch/AAP David Blair, University of Western Australia; Bruce Hobbs, CSIRO; David Franklin Treagust, Curtin University, and Malcolm McCulloch, University of Western Australia This article is part of a series in The Conversation on radical ideas to solve the environmental crisis. In 1896 Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius explored whether Earth’s …
Read More »ESA And Roscosmos Postpone Second ExoMars Launch To 2022
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Roscosmos Space Corporation announced on 12 March 2020 that they have decided to postpone the launch of the second ExoMars mission to study the Red Planet to 2022.
Read More »Kleos Finalises Launch Preparations At Launch Site
Kleos Space S.A, a space-powered radio frequency reconnaissance data-as-a-service (DaaS) company, advised on 12 March 2020 that the mission team will be travelling to the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Chennai, India from 18 March to carry out the final preparation steps prior to launch.
Read More »CNES And AASO Join Forces – Africa Enters The ActInSpace Fold
Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES) President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Sekou Ouedraogo, President of the African Aeronautics & Space Organisation (AASO), signed a partnership agreement to develop ,the ActInSpace international hackathon in Africa.
Read More »Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Camden Large Solid Rocket Motor Development Facility Nears Completion
Aerojet Rocketdyne has installed a steel casting bell to support production of large solid rocket motors, marking an important milestone for completion of its Engineering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) facility in Camden, Arkansas, US, the company announced on 12 March 2020.
Read More »Coronavirus Impact: Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy
New data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite reveal the decline of air pollution, specifically nitrogen dioxide emissions, over Italy.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Perspectives: Women In Tech… Does It Have To Be “Sole” Destroying?!
By Tegan Lloyd Williams I have a new obsession… GOLD TRAINERS. Massive, blingy, bright and bold gold trainers. I work in a corporate, male dominated industry and it is always flattering and often positive to hear the words “I don’t see gender”, or “It doesn’t matter if you are male …
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