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Satellite to track climate change from space with help from Scots scientists
STV News
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August 16, 2025
Scientists from the University of Edinburgh are celebrating the successful launch of a new satellite set to transform the way the world monitors carbon dioxide. MicroCarb – a landmark UK-France mission – has soared into orbit aboard the 35-metre...
James Webb Telescope Fuels European Innovation in AI and Space Tech
WebProNews
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August 14, 2025
In the vast expanse of space exploration, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) stands as a beacon of human ingenuity, with significant European fingerprints all over its design and operations. Launched in 2021 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from...
Science ABC News Stargazers dazzled as spirals of light appear in night sky
Yahoo News
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Stargazers on the lookout for the Perseid meteor shower were treated to an extra nighttime spectacular on Tuesday night as spirals appeared in the sky along the East Coast. The unusual light show -- which appeared to show circling lights in the...
What was that weird light in the night sky over Columbus? Hint: not aliens.
Yahoo News
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Columbus stargazers were greeted with an unusual sight the night of Aug. 12: a bright bowtie-shaped light hanging in the night sky. Columbus redditors in Clintonville, Baltimore, the German Village, Canal Winchester, New Albany, Whitehall, the...
10 lessons from the James Webb telescope that could shape European tech
The Next Web
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August 13, 2025
The scientific world is reeling. New discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope — a joint project by the European Space Agency(ESA), NASA, and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) — aren’t just surprising, they’re contradicting our deepest...
Airbus picks Teledyne Space to provide imaging sensors on European MetOp-SG-A1 Earth-observation satellites
Military & Aerospace Electronics
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August 18, 2025
Summary points: Airbus selects Teledyne imaging sensors — CCD314, CIS119, and CCD327-20 — for the first MetOp-SG-A1 next-generation weather and Earth-observation satellites. MetOp-SG-A1 launched from Kourou to provide high-resolution...
New technology will 'transform' Met Office weather forecasts and it launches this week
Daily Record & Sunday Mail
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August 12, 2025
A new piece of technology that is set to "transform" how weather agencies like the Met Office make forecasts is launching this week. And when we say 'launching', we mean it literally. The cutting-edge tech is a satellite that will be heading up...
Kazakhstan aims to revive Cold War-era Baikonur spaceport for the new rocket race
EurActiv
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August 18, 2025
Baikonur, KAZAKHSTAN – Before every Soviet rocket launch, cosmonauts would kick the launcher before clambering into their ride to space. Today, out in the dusty steppes of Central Asia, Kazakhstan's government is trying to kick-start its own space...
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ESA
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Science & Exploration 22/03/2007 1931 views 0 likes Jules Verne, the first of five Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATV), stands on the brink of flight. Its hardware is 100 percent assembled and ready to fly. The inaugural mission, set for the second...
Airbus satellite launches with Irish navigation tech
Silicon Republic
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July 25, 2025
In a recent test, NASA utilised an AI payload developed by Ubotica to show that the tech can help orbiting spacecraft provide better data. Airbus’ latest generation (Constellation Optique 3D) CO3D satellites are set to launch today (25 July)...
Satellite project could save lives, give extreme weather warnings
The Malaysian Star
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August 17, 2025
LONDON: A series of satellites are set to be launched into space over the next 15 years to help “save lives” and give early warning of increasingly extreme weather, British experts have said. The Metop Second Generation project aims to make...
New European satellite launch lifts weather forecasting to new heights
World Meteorological Organization
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August 15, 2025
Metop Second Generation A1 (Metop-SGA1) lifted off on an Ariane-62 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 13 August. It is the first of the next generation of European polar-orbiting weather satellites and also hosts the new...
Europe launches MetOp-SG A1 meteorological satellite
CompositesWorld
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Source | 2025 ESA/CNES/ArianeSpace On Aug. 13, Europe’s next-gen meteorological satellites, MetOp-Second Generation (MetOp-SG) A1, successfully launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on board an Ariane 6 rocket. The...
Europe launches Sentinel-5A to improve global air quality monitoring
Open Access Government
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August 14, 2025
This latest addition to the Copernicus Earth observation program lifted off aboard an Ariane 62 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, at 02:37 am CEST Wednesday, 13 August. The satellite confirmed successful deployment by...
Video 00:04:21 Applications MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5: from cleanroom to space 14/08/2025 21 views 0 likes Play
ESA
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Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite – which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission – has launched aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from the European spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 13 August at...
Successful launch of Metop-SGA1 to take weather forecasting to new heights
Meteorological Technology International
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August 14, 2025
The Metop Second Generation A1 (Metop-SGA1) satellite, carrying the European Union’s Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission, was successfully launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on August 13. The satellite, which is the first in the...
Europe says it leads the world in Earth Observation. But what is it?
Euronews
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August 13, 2025
Published on 13/08/2025 - 16:10 GMT+2 •Updated 16:11 The heavy-lift launcher, developed over a decade by the European Space Agency (ESA) and ArianeGroup, was launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana this Tuesday. After just over...
MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5A Launch Ushers in New Era for Weather and Climate Monitoring
Space Newscast
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August 13, 2025
KOUROU, FRENCH GUIANA: In a significant event for European space science, the first MetOp Second Generation (MetOp-SG-A1) satellite—equipped with the advanced Copernicus Sentinel-5 instrument—was successfully launched into orbit today atop an...
European satellite launches to boost extreme weather monitoring
The Sun Daily
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August 13, 2025
KOUROU: A new European satellite designed to improve extreme weather monitoring blasted into orbit aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from French Guiana. The MetOp-SGA1 satellite will provide earlier warnings for deadly heatwaves, storms and other...
Successful launch of Airbus-built satellite ushers in new era of meteorology
AeroTime News
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August 13, 2025
An Airbus-built satellite has been placed into a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 800 km after successfully launching onboard an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The Ariane 6 rocket blasted off on August 12,...