Category: Environment

Background and Mission Objectives The European Space Agency’s Biomass mission is a groundbreaking Earth observation program focused on measuring the amount of carbon stored in the world’s forests. Selected in 2013 as ESA’s seventh Earth Explorer research mission, Biomass was conceived to address a critical gap in our understanding of the global carbon cycle en.wikipedia.org…
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A New Radar Eye for Forest Carbon The European Space Agency’s Biomass satellite, launched on April 29, 2025, is a groundbreaking mission designed to map the world’s forests in 3D and measure their carbon content with unprecedented accuracy defensetalks.com airbus.com. It is the first satellite ever to carry a P-band synthetic aperture radar – a…
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The European Commission’s freshly‑minted EU Space Act lands at the very moment low‑Earth orbit (LEO) is sliding from boomtown to bottleneck. Behind the headline pledge to fine careless satellite operators lurks a hard truth: more than 40 000 tracked objects, 7 500+ Starlink spacecraft alone, and upward of 120 million un‑tracked fragments already threaten satellites, science and Earth’s atmosphere. This report unpacks…
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A fast‑moving stream of plasma from a yawning coronal hole is barreling toward Earth, and forecasters at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) have issued a G2 (moderate) geomagnetic‑storm watch for the night of 25 June 2025. If the solar‑wind blast couples efficiently with our planet’s magnetic field, auroras could surge as far south as Colorado, New York…
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The European Space Agency’s new BIOMASS mission has started to deliver on its dramatic promise: a 12‑metre, umbrella‑shaped radar antenna that peers through dense jungle canopies has sent back its first colour‑coded maps of the Amazon, Indonesia and even the bedrock of the Sahara—offering an unprecedented view of how much carbon the world’s forests really…
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In a world warming faster than ever, the planet’s frozen extremes are undergoing dramatic change – and two ingenious satellites are on the front lines of discovery. NASA’s ICESat-2 and ESA’s CryoSat-2 use cutting-edge laser and radar technology, respectively, to map our planet’s ice in unprecedented detail from space. These twin missions have revolutionized how…
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Before the Strike: Trucks and Bulldozers Spotted at Fordow Satellite surveillance captured telltale signs of Iranian preparations at Fordow. On June 19, 2025 a Maxar satellite image shows cargo trucks parked outside the underground entrance of the Fordow complex foxnews.com. The next day (June 20) another image reveals bulldozers and heavy vehicles moving toward the…
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Total Number of Satellites in Orbit (Active vs. Defunct) in 2025 As of 2025, Earth is encircled by an unprecedented number of artificial satellites. By the end of March 2025, approximately 14,900 total satellites were orbiting the planet. However, not all of these are operational. Roughly 11,000–12,000 of these satellites are active and functioning, while…
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Introduction A massive forest fire rages through dry vegetation. AI technologies are emerging as critical tools to detect and prevent such devastating wildfires. Wildfires have become more frequent and intense in our warming world, incinerating millions of acres of forest and threatening communities and ecosystems. Each year, wildfires burn an estimated 400 million hectares of…
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