In brief – Page 2

China launches satellite to study earthquake precursors

2 Feb 2018 • Battery of instruments target ionosphere, magnetic and electric fields

Woods Hole Group to encompass CLS America and Horizon Marine

10 Jan 2018 • The US-based entities of marine satellite data and services company CLS are united under one name. Woods Hole Group, A CLS Company encompasses Maryland-based CLS America, Woods Hole Group – acquired by CLS last year – and Horizon Marine.

Space applications developers network, London

3 Jan 2018 • The UK Space Agency is hosting what it bills as its largest networking opportunity for the space applications community, to meet other application developers, investors and funding bodies

AeroVironment joins high-altitude pseudo-satellite race

3 Jan 2018 • Joint venture formed with Japanese telecoms group SoftBank to develop a solar-powered high-altitude craft

UKSA calls on young people for space-based application ideas

2 Jan 2018 • £50,000 competition aims to link space technologies to better life on Earth

Copernicus for agriculture workshop: 5 February, Brussels

20 Dec 2017 • European Commission-hosted one-day event looks to help private sector develop downstream applications of Earth observation data

MicroCarb build-and-test contract to Thales Alenia Space

9 Nov 2017 • The UK Space Agency has contracted Thales Alenia Space to build the France-UK MicroCarb atmospheric carbon concentrations monitoring satellite due to launch in 2020