ESA Satellite missions launched

Published on August 21, 2024

Congratulations to members Open Cosmos and CGI on the successful launch of the European Space Agency mission, Phisat-2 last week. It has four AI apps on board with two more to be uploaded in orbit. Phisat-2 will  improve Earth Observation images before they are sent back, such as automatically removing any that are obscured by clouds. Open Cosmos developed the Phisat-2 nanosatellite. CGI developed the Sat2Map App. Thales developed the PhiFireApp.  Read more. ESA/EUMETSAT’s Arctic Weather Satellite (AWS) was also on board and it will improve short-term weather forecasting over the remote region. Read more here. Sentinel-2c is due for launch on September 4th – read the latest update.

 

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