Week in images: 03-07 November 2025
Friday, 07 November 2025 13:15
Week in images: 03-07 November 2025
Discover our week through the lens
Europe’s lead in hyperspectral Earth observation depends on public–private partnerships
Friday, 07 November 2025 13:00
GHGSat continues to expand its methane-monitoring constellation
Friday, 07 November 2025 12:00
SAN FRANCISCO – GHGSat announced plans Nov. 7 to send two additional satellites into its greenhouse-gas-monitoring constellation. Ahead of the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Brazil, Montreal-based GHGSat is preparing to expand its methane-monitoring constellation from 12 to 14 satellites.
Space is key to the Army’s long march to a connected force
Friday, 07 November 2025 12:00
FAA to restrict commercial launches during government shutdown
Friday, 07 November 2025 11:44
ESA satellites track progress on Paris Agreement goals
Friday, 07 November 2025 09:52
As the United Nations COP30 climate change conference convenes in Belém, Brazil, the world's attention will turn to the heart of the Amazon rainforest – a region that symbolises both hope and concern in the fight against climate change.
Once considered one of Earth's most vital carbon sinks, the Amazon is now showing troubling signs – satellite observations reveal that parts of this vast ecosystem are no longer absorbing carbon dioxide as they once did. In some areas, the forest has even become a net source of carbon emissions.
BlackSky signs contract exceeding 30 million dollars to supply Gen-3 ISR for defense client
Friday, 07 November 2025 08:27
BlackSky Technology Inc. has secured a multi-year contract worth over 30 million dollars to integrate its Gen-3 high-cadence tactical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) services into the secure operational environment of a strategic international defense customer.
The program aims to boost sovereign space-based intelligence capacities by leveraging BlackSky's commercial t The threat of space terrorism is no longer science fiction, but we're ill-prepared to combat it
Friday, 07 November 2025 08:27
As satellite technology surges ahead and space becomes increasingly accessible to private and state actors alike, the new and unsettling threat of space terrorism looms above Earth's atmosphere.
Once the domain of science fiction, the idea of terrorist activity in outer space is now a growing concern among experts.
The democratisation of space has not only opened the door to innovati Ancient mantle revealed by 3.7-billion-year-old rocks in Australia
Friday, 07 November 2025 08:27
Researchers at the University of Western Australia, along with colleagues from the University of Bristol, the Geological Survey of Western Australia, and Curtin University, examined feldspar crystals from anorthosite rocks found in the Murchison region of Western Australia. These rocks, dated at 3.7 billion years old, are confirmed to be the oldest on the Australian continent and among the earli New Copernicus Satellite Strengthens Earth Observation Programme
Friday, 07 November 2025 08:27
The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite was successfully launched on November 4, 2025, at 22:02 CET from French Guiana using an Ariane 62 rocket. Sentinel-1D joins the Copernicus programme, providing essential data for environmental monitoring, infrastructure assessment, and disaster response.
The Sentinel-1 mission now features two identical satellites in orbit, imaging Earth's surface every Earth from Space: Branco River, Brazil
Friday, 07 November 2025 08:00
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Ahead of the 30th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP30) taking place in Belém, Brazil, from 10-21 November, this IRIDE image shows the Branco River and its surrounding forests in the Brazilian state of Roraima. Insects on the space menu
Friday, 07 November 2025 07:00
Long before humans reached orbit, insects had already shown they could handle the hurdles of spaceflight. Light, highly adaptable and nutritionally rich, these resilient animals present an attractive option for European researchers studying reliable food sources for long-duration missions.
SpaceX to Acquire EchoStar AWS-3 Spectrum Licenses in $2.6 Billion Stock Deal
Friday, 07 November 2025 02:24
EchoStar has amended its agreement with SpaceX to sell its entire portfolio of unpaired AWS-3 spectrum licenses for approximately $2.6 billion in SpaceX stock, valued as of September 2025. These nationwide licenses are part of 3GPP Band 70n, providing uplink frequencies from 1695 to 1710 MHz, and the deal builds on an earlier agreement between the two companies announced in September.
The Student CubeSat set for launch to support NASA IMAP mission with space weather data collection
Friday, 07 November 2025 02:24
A group of undergraduate students from the University of New Hampshire, Sonoma State University, and Howard University have collaboratively designed and built a CubeSat called 3UCubed, now scheduled for launch on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, no earlier than November 10, 2025.
The small satellite mission is linked to NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Accelerat