Weatherwatch: satellite weather data plays growing role in saving lives
Eumestat early warning system helps predict climate trends and forthcoming extreme weather events in Europe and Africa
May 2024
Space warfare: how the military could be forced to give up GPS and return to navigating by the stars
Starlink internet shutdown in Sudan will punish millions, Elon Musk warned
April 2024
Dead satellites are filling space with trash. That could affect Earth’s magnetic field
Sierra Solter
Our ozone is pennies thick – and soonwe’ll put at least an Eiffel Tower’s worth of metallic ashinto the ionosphere every year
March 2024
Space One rocket explodes soon after launch in Japan
Satellite to ‘name and shame’ worst oil and gas methane polluters
February 2024
The age of extinction
‘Taking the pulse of the planet’: could we monitor biodiversity from space as we do the weather?
With current data on global biodiversity either lacking or flawed, a global satellite scheme aims to fill the gaps to target protection of our seas, soils and wildlife
Uncontrolled European satellite falls to Earth after 30 years in orbit
ERS-2 breaks up into pieces and plummets into the ocean after reentering Earth’s atmosphere
Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution
The environmentally friendly LignoSat probe – set to orbit this summer – has been created to combat harmful aluminium particles
December 2023
Shetland island to house UK’s first vertical rocket launch spaceport
Unst’s remote location makes it perfect place for SaxaVord site to launch rockets with greatest payloads
Greenhouse gas emissions soar – with China, US and India most at fault
Satellite tracking data shows many countries and firms do not provide accurate figures
South Korea launches first military spy satellite, intensifying space race with Pyongyang
Seoul’s satellite was launched into orbit on one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets
November 2023
‘Nuclear tinderbox’: Kim’s threats put North Korea on wrong side of history
Simon Tisdall
As a distracted world looks elsewhere, US and China have a common interest in halting Asia’s accelerating nuclear arms race
North Korean spy satellite team attend banquet with Kim Jong-un and daughter Ju Ae
Dictator seen with daughter at celebration for scientists and technicians who finally put Malligyong-1 into space after two failed attempts
UK to build new satellite to monitor climate crisis and natural disasters
The pathfinder craft, co-funded by £3m from the UK Space Agency, will provide data to help detect and monitor natural disasters
October 2023
Billionaire space race: can Bezos’s Project Kuiper catch up to Musk’s Starlink?
Amazon launches first two satellites in planned orbital internet service
US government issues first-ever space debris penalty to Dish Network
Astronomers sound alarm over light pollution from huge new satellite
September 2023
Weatherwatch
Could space-based solar farms soon be a reality?
The concept of satellites beaming power down to Earth is gaining traction but challenges remain
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