CO2M

programme alongside Galileo and provides an independent Earth observation infrastructure. All Copernicus[...] mission It is one of the most important missions to combat climate change: the Copernicus CO2 Monitoring[...] Mission (CO2M) aims to specifically measure the amount of climate-damaging...

Small but powerful: Microsatellite ESAIL gets ready for launch

with microsatellites? Before I came to LxS, I was involved primarily with earth observation satellites and other rather[...] scientific missions. For example, I worked on Sentinel 3 – the satellites are a part of the Copernicus[...] to my work with LxS, but I did have extensive experience in...

The Flyeye-Telescope – early warning service for the sky

) is heading for our planet. 900 potentially dangerous “near-Earth objects” are currently being monitored[...] with a diameter of as little as 40 meters three weeks be­ fore an impending impact with the Earth. “As far[...] to colliding with the Earth. As recently as on October 10, 2019, ESA...

#EngineeringOurEarth Part 3: What is geoengineering?

the Earth's climate system not only unintentionally, but also deliberately. This approach is called[...] to the Earth". The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) defines geoengineering as "a broad group[...] that aim to influence the Earth's radiation budget, on the other hand, are...

Space Encounter: Science must foster its role as the fountain of truth

this. Take, for example, the data provided by Earth observation satellites. This is information relating[...] be evaluated? As an observer of the system with a fairly realistic view of science, I am looking forward[...] knowledge. Whether we will one day find a second earth on which humanity can...

How exactly is MT Aerospace entering the hydrogen era?

on the hydrogen market is MT Aerospace involved? GS: We are observing that the major players in the industrial[...] to oil disasters, it becomes evident what humans are ultimately doing to the earth. If hydrogen[...] , Mr Schullerer? GS: Correctly speaking, it should be 50 years. The origins lie...

We feel it is beyond the pale to be denounced as enemies of freedom

Copernicus Earth observation program, we are developing satellites to detect CO2, which will help to better[...] The main building of OHB's corporate headquarters in Bremen. © Mohssen Assanimoghaddam[...] . The Senate of the Hansestadt Bremen took a lot of time on several occasions to form...

Space Encounter: All involved parties must make a contribution to mastering the crisis

activities. Space programs in the fields of navigation (Galileo) and Earth observation (Copernicus[...] lockdown is forcing the economy and society to adapt to restrictions of their elementary rights of freedom[...] effort that is required to combat the virus. Cultural and economic lockdown The...

Detective work on the oceans

on space missions. Yet, as the old saying goes, exceptions prove the rule. Read more Young Talent[...] is. In addition, observance of trade sanctions can also be monitored because ships in particular are increasingly[...] undermining them. As well as this, particularly endangered marine areas can...

Space Encounter: Europe's security is also defended in space

quality data and a deeper understanding of the Earth's ecosystem. Satellite measurements and observations[...] member states agree on hardly anything as much as the fact that the ongoing space programmes to observe[...] information via satellite, protected from foreign ears and eyes – even if the...