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MATS – New Scientific Satellite from Sweden

For the past two decades, Sweden has continuously developed and built their own scientific satellites – and the next in line, MATS, is now ready for launch. MATS is the next in a series of satellites that include Viking, Freja, Astrid 1 and 2, Odin and Prisma, all national initiatives, although some are built together […]

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Radar Pictures at One – Two – Three

   Cooperation between the Finnish ICEYE and the Norwegian KSAT it will be possible to deliver complete SAR images to the customer within fifteen minutes after the satellite has taken the pictures.  Through two decades of acquisition of radar pictures from space, the customers have had the possibility to detect details on earth every time, […]

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Satellites Needed in Modern Shipping.

  Shipping has almost always been a key factor in terms of being able to sell and buy goods, so all types of trade have depended heavily on shipping opportunities, firstly on a local basis, gradually for markets father away, and eventually globalisation has proved dependent on shipping access internationally. Navigation across oceans was firstly […]

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Grand Challenge Initiative – Rocket Campaign at Andøya Space Center

    Two sounding rockets from NASA blasted off from the rocket range at Andøya early in December 2018, marking the beginning of one of the largest campaigns ever from the rocket range in the northern Norway. The campaign named “Grand Challenge Initiative” is designed to explore the area called the Geomagnetic Cusp, or Polar […]

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Satellites for Better Air Quality

In recent months, two satellites aimed at monitoring air quality and air circulation worldwide, were launched to cover especially European areas. Despite years of focus on improving air quality, many people do not have adequate quality to secure a good life. In order to detect undesirable elements in the air, as well as locating the […]

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Cost Effective Launcher for Small Satellites

Recently, there has been an increasing interest for small satellites, thus, an increasing marked for small and cost-effective launchers to serve this marked. One of the new projects is the Small Innovative Launcher for Europe (SMILE), a cooperation project under the European Union Horizon 2020 project, coordinated by the Netherland Aerospace Centre (NLR). The project […]

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Developing of the Norwegian NorSat-3

      With four small satellites monitoring the water-born traffic already in service, Norway has started working on the fifth satellite, NorSat-3. Traffic along the Norwegian coast is already immense and is expected to increase over the next years. This due to increasing traffic through lesser ice in the North East Passage and increasing […]

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ICEYE – Small but Effective

  Finland Launch Commercial Radar Satellite Services Through miniaturization of the SAR technology for satellites, the Finnish start-up company, ICEYE, has launched the first micro radar satellite in a constellation, which within a short time can deliver high quality pictures with a response time of six hours and a resolution of three metres. The first […]

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Meeting Place for Suppliers of Very Small Units

Space Tech Expo Europe – the Meeting Place for Suppliers of Very Small Units   All instruments, satellites included, that have been sent to space consist of a very large number of small units, developed and manufactured by specialized companies worldwide. The last week of October, some of these companies, mainly European, participated in the […]

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