Cryosat-2 and Copernicus satellites: unlocking climate action
The ever-evolving aerospace technology for Earth observation enables scientists like Anna Hogg to measure the speed of ice melting in the polar regions and provide…
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The Copernicus LSTM Expansion mission moves a step closer to helping climate change adaptation
The Land Surface Temperature Monitoring (LSTM) programme is on track focusing on farming and food security, irrigation and water scarcity, and urban heat islands and…
Airbus wins ESA’s LSTM temperature-check mission for Copernicus next generation
Contract valued at € 380 million Airbus Spain to lead industrial consortium: first Copernicus prime for Spain Madrid, 13 November 2020 – The European Space…
SpaceDataHighway starts full Copernicus service
The Airbus-operated SpaceDataHighway has begun regularly relaying data from the Sentinel-2A satellite, after the successful end of the commissioning period. This marks the start of…
Sentinel-2B satellite ready for launch from Kourou
Multi Spectral Instruments provide unique image quality Data to be transmitted via Airbus’s laser-based SpaceDataHighway (EDRS) Sentinel-2B, Europe´s next Copernicus satellite is being readied by…
Copernicus´ Second Eye is ready to meet its Launcher
– Sentinel-2B satellite scheduled for launch in early March 2017 – Airbus built spacecraft provides unique image quality Sentinel-2B, Europe´s next Copernicus satellite in Space,…
All dressed up with somewhere to go
Yesterday, a ‘team of teams’ working at ESA’s control centre conducted a final rehearsal for tomorrow’s launch of Sentinel-3A. The rehearsal was the culmination of…