After a six-day blockade of the Suez Canal, the Evergreen ‘Ever Given’ mega containership was pulled out of the banks and shallows of the canal on Monday 29 March 2021, with the support of Dutch shipping and Read More
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Dutch Minister Van Engelshoven: “SPEXone is good to go!” On 22 February 2021, Dutch space research institute SRON briefly opened its digital doors for the media and the parties that have been collaborating over the past years Read More
Earlier this week the Copernicus OBSERVER published an article about the improved abilities to track methane emissions from the oil and gas extraction industry from space. This capacity practically did not exist five years ago, Read More
Space Science for Societal Challenges Several representatives of Groundstation.Space took part in the online “Space Science for Societal Challenges Workshop” organised by the Lorentz Center on 22 and 23 October 2020. Space sciences, industry, government policy and Read More
KenGen (Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC), Kenya’s leading electric power generation company, and the University of Twente are working together, as part of a three year collaboration in the field of geothermal energy. The Read More
In our monthly Open Campus ‘Space Opportunities for Climate Challenges’ webinar series Eurisy and Groundstation.Space organise a free webinar on ‘Space for Energy’, on Wednesday 3 February, from 16:00 to 17:00 CET. The Space for Climate initiative Read More
Safe communication between military personnel, predicting forest fires, real-time images of air pollution, knowing exactly how much water crops need, and rapid identification of imminent dike subsidence. This is a selection of applications made possible Read More
Earlier this year the European Commission launched its plans towards developing a ‘Digital Twin’ of planet Earth, dubbed ‘Destination Earth’, abbreviated as ‘DestinE’. The objective of this initiative is to develop a very high precision Read More
More than 50 small satellites were simultaneously launched into space from French Guyana with the Vega Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) on 2 September 2020. It is the first time that a rocket launch by the European Space Read More
~ registration closed ~ Huge amounts of data from space, the kind produced by the European Earth observation programme Copernicus and its fleet of Sentinel satellites, offer countless opportunities in connection with mobile applications. The Space App Read More