The Q2 2020 total investment was $672m including $346m investment into SpaceX. Compared to Q2 2019, which also included a sizeable SpaceX investment, the Q2 20 investment saw an increase of 12%. From a sector category perspective Launch remained the focus for VC investors totalling $1.35bn over the year, up by 7% Y-o-Y (Year-over-Year). Also …
Satellite images have revealed that there are nearly 20% more emperor penguincolonies in Antarctica than previously thought. Scientists, at the British Antarctic Survey,have used satellite data from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission to track penguin guano,or penguin poo, to monitor the presence of thousands of penguins. The findings, published in Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation …
07.09.2020. LoReTT_CosmoNews. Discovering new penguin colonies from space Read More »
Fixed to a special device, simulating zero gravity conditions, the 12.3 metre wide and 860 kg SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) radar antenna of the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite has successfully spread its wings at the Airbus Integrated Technology Centre in Friedrichshafen (Germany) for the first time. The Sentinel-1C satellite equipped with the SAR Instrument (C-band radar) …
10.09.2020. Sentinel-1C radar antenna has spread its wings for the first time Read More »
Until April 11, 2021 applications for the competition «Scientific Orientation: Open Space» are being accepted on the website of the Russian Schoolchildren Movement. Schoolchildren aged 12 to can apply with their research or practical idea which can be used on a small orbiting nanosatellite of the Earth or the Moon in the “3U-cubesat” format (10 …
09.04.2021.LoReTT_CosmoNews. Сonstellation of School Satellites Space-π Read More »
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 (CSG-2) satellite lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Monday Jan. 31 at 23:11 GMT. SpaceX initially aimed to launch the mission on Thursday (Jan. 27), but bad weather forced the company to stand down till Sunday (Jan. 30). Than a cruise ship …
ISRO successfully launched its radar imaging satellite RISAT-1A, codenamed EOS-4, aboard PSLV-C52 on February 14 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. Pic. 1. ISRO successfully launched RISAT-1A satellite. The satellite will provide high-quality images under all-weather conditions for agriculture, forestry, soil moisture and hydrology, flood mapping, and more. RISAT-1A is part of the Radar Imaging …
15.02.2022. LoReTT_CosmoNews. RISAT-1A successfully launched by ISRO Read More »