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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ESA’s Ariane 6 launch vehicle, on which the deployment of the EU’s Galileo GNSS satellite constellation now depends, has taken another step towards first flight. A fresh series of hot fire tests of the rocket’s upper stage and all-new Vinci engine is now underway at Germany’s DLR center for engine and stage testing in Lampoldshausen. ...

The European Space Agency’s Biomass satellite may be up to the job. The upcoming mission, which is planned to launch in early 2024, will monitor Earth’s forests in unprecedented detail. The satellite consists of a 40-foot-wide reflector suspended on a boom over its rectangular body — the whole thing looks like a ginormous umbrella shielding ...

The European Space Agency is ending efforts to restore operations of the Sentinel-1B radar imaging satellite that malfunctioned more than half a year ago and will instead move up the launch of a replacement. ESA said in an Aug. 3 statement that the agency and the European Commission, partners on the Copernicus series of Earth ...

Nell’ambito della componente in-situ di Copernicus, il progetto “CORDA – Copernicus Reference Data Access” dell’EEA (European Environment Agency) ha l’obiettivo di migliorare l’accesso ai dati di riferimento nazionali e regionali, supportando il monitoraggio del territorio e i servizi di emergenza. A questo fine, CORDA raccoglie dataset di 39 Paesi e li rende disponibili in un ...

thanks to Europe’s environmental Copernicus program and the Sentinel-1 radar satellite mission, the first Europe-wide subsidence and soil movement analysis service is available to the public. The new European Ground Motion Service, the latest offering of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service and implemented by the European Environment Agency, provides free and accessible ground motion data ...

Europejska Agencja Kosmiczna zaprezentowała wyniki swoich badań, które udowadniają, że dokładność pozycjonowania przy użyciu smartfonów czy tabletów da się jeszcze znacznie poprawić. Prace prowadzone są w ramach projektu AMELIE (Advanced Multi-Frequency Low-Cost, High Gain GNSS Antennas for next generation of Mass-Market Devices). Jak zwraca uwagę jego kierowniczka Victoria Iza, nawigacja satelitarna jest tylko jedną z ...

Leicester scientists affiliated with the National Center for Earth Observation (NCEO), headquartered at Space Park Leicester, have mapped measures of land surface temperature—topping out at 52°C—as measured by the pair of Sentinel-3 satellites in orbit more than 800km (500 miles) above Earth. Their map shows the temperature of the Earth’s surface at approximately 10:20 am ...

“ESA’s Lunar Pathfinder mission will help verify the performance of new lunar navigation techniques in development at NASA,” said JJ Miller, Deputy Director of Policy and Strategic Communications for NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “This project is built on the long collaboration between NASA and ESA within the ...

An instrument, carried on the International Space Station, has captured the recent land-surface temperature extremes for some European cities, including Milan, Paris and Prague. For ESA, this particular instrument, which is called ECOSTRESS and owned by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), is important because it is helping in the development of a new Copernicus Sentinel ...

Europejska Agencja Kosmiczna i Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy we Wrocławiu podpisały porozumienie, w wyniku którego powstanie nowe laboratorium ESA w Polsce. Laboratorium będzie miejscem rozwoju systemów nawigacyjnych, transferu technologii i wymiany dla młodych naukowców chcących rozwijać się w obszarze badań kosmicznych i satelitarnych. Laboratorium zajmie się nie tylko rozwojem systemów nawigacyjnych, ale też organizacją wspólnych szkoleń, seminariów, ...