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Why has the UK Space Agency won an award for sustainability?

The Agency has been honoured for its International Partnership Programme.

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NASA launches new satellite to monitor rising sea levels

The spacecraft is the latest initiative by the space agency to gather data about changing sea levels.

Green News

Satellites are mapping out every tree on earth using AI technology

A neural network has been trained to identify trees based on their size and shape.

Green News

New penguin colonies in Antarctica spotted by satellites in space

Previously undiscovered emperor penguin colonies have been found by researchers at the British Antarctic Survey.

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USA

Amazon's satellite constellation plan to boost internet reach approved

The company plans to create a 3,200-strong satellite constellation to deliver internet to underserved communities. It will compete with Elon Musk's Starlink.

World News

Telescope in orbit maps stunning X-ray image of the universe

A breathtaking map of the entire sky around us has been captured by an X-ray telescope, revealing many mysteries hidden to optical telescopes.

World News

Interactive: World sites pictured from space before and after lockdown

From Rio to Rome, see how the coronavirus lockdown has emptied key sites around the world.

World News

What on Earth (monitoring) can Copernicus do for me?

The European Union's satellite and earth monitoring program can seem a complex constellation far, far away but its ever-growing services are already among us and have many possible applications.

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China launches satellite that can photograph every metre of ground

China has successfully launched an observation satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center

World News

European space mission aims to fill missing piece of climate jigsaw

The European Space Agency has commissioned a new satellite mission in a bid to find a crucial missing piece of the climate jigsaw.

Europe News

The Brief: Team Ursula - a change in direction

The names are out, but the portfolios will be revealed Tuesday. Gender balance achieved, but will the new-look Commission take a new direction?

World

Lift off! Europe's latest satellite rockets into space

The satellite will join a constellation that forms the European Data Relay System which enables users to observe the Earth almost in real-time.

Greenland

Five visuals to sum up Greenland's exceptional ice melting & wildfires

The European record heatwave of July is stuck in Greenland, causing an exceptional melt season, very close to the 2012 record. These pictures sum up the scale of the situation.

France

'May the force be with vous’: France unveils space weapons plan

France wants to develop laser weapons to protect its satellites, the country's defence minister said as she outlined a new space strategy.

World News

EU's sat-nav system Galileo suffers major outage

As of Monday morning — four days after the outage started — 24 of the 26 satellites in Galileo's constellation remained "not usable."

USA

Sunlight-fuelled spacecraft 'Lightsail 2' delays sail deployment

The crowd-funded spacecraft could deploy its sail as early as July 21 after delaying it to check a system that helps the spacecraft orient itself.

North Korea

US images suggest N Korea may be about to launch satellite

US images suggest N Korea may be about to launch satellite

Russia

Russia's space agency loses control of Spektr-R satellite

Spektr-R satellite is continuing to transmit signals, but scientists have been unable to control the satellite since Friday

United Arab Emirates

First Emirati-made satellite launched into space

KhalifaSat, the first-ever Emirati-manufactured satellite successfully launched into space from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Centre on October 29.

World

Satellite to record earths wind from Space

Your weather report could be getting a lot better thanks to this brand new satellite. The launch of Aeolus satellite from Norway will see wind on earth registered all the way from space.