https://spacewatch.global/tag/cosmo-skymed/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:26:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/cosmo-skymed/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2024/05/spacewatchgl-geopolitics-italys-unfulfilled-space-destiny/ Wed, 08 May 2024 08:00:56 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=55082 This year Italy is hosting two of the most important events for the Space domain, alongside chairing the G7. But what could be the perfect opportunity to consolidate Italy’s position in the Space sector falls short in the hands of a political class without a clear strategic vision, confining Italy to be characterized by a historical lack of planning capacity and low technical ambitions, in contrast with the several industrial and academic excellences that it expresses at worldwide level in the aerospace sector.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/02/asi-assists-turkey-and-syria-relief-efforts-with-satellite-images/ Thu, 09 Feb 2023 07:00:51 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=46491 Following the violent earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on the night of 6 February, the Italian Space Agency (ASI) has made satellite images from the COSMO-SkyMed radar constellation available]]> https://spacewatch.global/2022/12/france-agrees-to-provide-poland-with-two-satellites-and-a-ground-station/ Wed, 28 Dec 2022 07:00:03 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=45677 Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak and French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu approved an agreement between Airbus and the Polish Armaments Agency. Under this agreement, France will deliver two reconnaissance satellites and a ground station to Poland, the ministers said at a press conference.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/03/launch-of-argentinian-satellite-by-spacex-postponed-due-to-coronavirus-travel-restrictions/ Fri, 27 Mar 2020 06:00:54 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=20975 Elon Musk's claim that the governmental and societal response to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic is an overreaction and "dumb" has caught up with him (again) as it was revealed that the 30 March 2020 scheduled launch of Argentina's SAOCOM-1B remote sensing satellite by a SpaceX Falcon 9 satellite launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (AFS) in Florida, United States, has been postponed.]]>