News about Earth Observation. Author of https://xitter.cf/t.co/Whdgzt5wES and https://xitter.cf/t.co/E5OkTBcEIH @stromgade .bsky.social Opinions my own
Joined March 2011
- Tweets31.4K
- Following425
- Followers2.2K
- Likes218K
Pinned Tweet
NEW: A database of observation satellites, with resolution, swath widths, and orbits
satelliteobservation.wordpre…
stromgade retweeted
Our Hera spacecraft can now see Didymos and Dimorphos as two separate asteroids!
Coming closer, it will study the effects of NASA's 2022 DART impact and help advance asteroid deflection as a planetary defence technique.
The first detailed images of Dimorphos are expected on 25 November.
Follow Hera’s journey with the Hera Space Companion 👉 hera.esa.int
🔗esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Fi…
ALT Hera's first view of the separate Didymos and Dimorphos asteroids
stromgade retweeted
.@Thales_Alenia_S & @AirbusSpace each book 2 more @GalileoGNSS 2d Gen satellites, to launch 2031; brings total 2d Gen order to 16 sats, 8 from each co. Original 2021 order for 12 was valued at EUR 1.47B, or $1.8B. @esa @defis_eu @EU4Space. spaceintelreport.com/thales-…
stromgade retweeted
Airbus to build 2️⃣ additional Galileo G2 satellites 🧭🛰️
Airbus Defence and Space has been contracted by the European Space Agency @esa on behalf of the EU agency for Space Programme @EU4Space to build two additional Galileo Second Generation (G2) satellites.
Building on the initial batch of six satellites, this order adds two more units to the Galileo Second Generation constellation, expanding a fleet designed to bring augmented navigation precision, fully digital reconfigurable payloads, and advanced anti-jamming capabilities to Europe.
Learn more: airbus.com/en/newsroom/press…
stromgade retweeted
.@Eutelsat: @SpaceX Starshield/@Starlink Ukraine controversy couldn't happen w/ OneWeb; co wants to operate a D2D constellation; says @Aerospacelab won 264-sat Iris2 bid w/ aggressive design, lower cost. @defis_eu @DG_Armement @SES_Satellites @ArianeGroup.spaceintelreport.com/eutelsa…
stromgade retweeted
I don't understand why so many countries are clamoring to fund these vanity astronaut missions. Surely they offer very little return on investment? We're talking about €50 to €100 million that definitely could have been put to use investing in other space programmes?
Australia has submitted a counteroffer to ESA for an ISS mission for Katherine Bennell-Pegg, with critics calling the proposed spending "reckless."
europeanspaceflight.com/aust…
stromgade retweeted
I agree with Yats here. There's plenty of precedent, foreign assets have been seized and used by both the United States and EU nations in the past.
Belgiums objection is much more of a personal economic argument than it is a legal one. This is like 40% of their GDP as a lump sum
stromgade retweeted
Military analyst Kofman: This year Russia is trying to buy 1,300 ballistic missiles, 1,600 cruise missiles and over 120K long-range attack drones and decoys.
Jet drones are over half its strike drones. Only about 60% get shot down, against 90% for prop drones. 1/
stromgade retweeted
.@Open_Cosmos returns to @ITUradiocomms with satellite status details to win deadline extension for Connected Cosmos broadband constellation. Co. maintains it has binding contract w/ @FireflySpace for 4 launches, each carrying 6 sats, to occur by June 2027.spaceintelreport.com/open-co…
stromgade retweeted
I made a quick visual to complement the recent story of Google 'illegally' cutting down over 250,000 trees for a new data centre in Finland (thanks to Claude and free Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite imagery).
Earlier this month, Finland’s permit agency ordered Google to stop work at its planned data centre sites, after around 330 hectares of forest were cleared at Muhos before the required environmental impact assessment was complete.
The visual below clearly shows the Muhos site from July 2025 to October 2026: the forest is intact into autumn 2025 and cleared by early April 2026, followed by stripped soil and site roads.
330 hectares and 250,000 trees are hard to picture, but seeing the same patch go from forest to bare ground within a few months makes the scale much easier to grasp.
Satellite imagery is free to use and AI makes this a 10-minute task (that’s what I did). So, I hope more media outlets start complementing stories with satellite visuals - it is more powerful.
stromgade retweeted
Two maps that illustrate how little the construction of a 29B6 Container over-the-horizon backscatter (OTH-B) radar in Kaliningrad changes things in terms of Russia's ability to monitor aircraft movements west of Russia's primary western frontier. The maps depict the notional coverage of two 29B6 OTH-B radars configured for 360- degree coverage over 800-3000 km and are intended to draw attention to the blind spot resulting from the skip zone. The existing 29B6 radar in Mordovia already offered extensive coverage of most of Europe as well as Ukraine.
stromgade retweeted
Space Force shifts missile-warning, cislunar missions from Vulcan to SpaceX spacenews.com/space-force-sh…
stromgade retweeted
Imagine being a CEO of an US energy company and thinking that you work with close associates of the Trump family, only to find out that behind them is a sanctioned Russian company, really pulling the strings.
This happened in Alaska. Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, stepped down after finding out that the Russian "Novatek" company, which is under US sanctions, has been involved in a $25 billion energy project in Alaska. The CEO thought that he was working with Gentry Beach, a close friend of Donald Trump Junior.
Reportedly, that project was also discussed between Witkoff and Jared Kushner when they were with Putin. The White House admitted that the project was talked about "briefly".
We are witnessing the greatest corruption scandal the USA has ever witnessed. It all leads to Trump, his family and the Russians, and apparently they were even ready to sell riches of Alaska to the Russians.
The people in Alaska just need to look over to Russia, where the richest regions in terms of minerals and hydrocarbon resources have been stripped-mined, transferring all the wealth to Moscow and Saint Petersburg and leaving a scarred landscape in extreme poverty. That is the result of rampant corruption.
We are starting to see more details why Trump and his friends are trying so strongly to bully Ukraine into surrender. This is most certainly only the tip of the iceberg.
stromgade retweeted
Sans budget 2027, le réarmement de la France devient de « la science-fiction » @DGA @DG_Armement @Armees_Gouv @GifasOfficiel
@GICAT_FR @Gican_InduNav @Dassault_OnAir
@AirbusDefence @thalesgroup @SAFRAN @navalgroup @MBDAGroup @KNDS_France
@AJDPresse @AJPAE latribune.fr/article/defense…
stromgade retweeted
I think troposcatter coming back is the right call. SATCOM is a single point of failure, and 60 Mbit/s at 60km without LoS from a man-portable box is genuinely solid. Cold War tech refusing to retire, respect. Redundancy done right.
stromgade retweeted
🇩🇪Germany plans to procure jkdefence.de's COMET terminals reviving Cold War troposcatter tech, giving Bundeswehr over-the-horizon links up to 60km far when LoS is blocked & satcom denied. Reported specs: 25.4 kg, 4.4-5GHz, ≤60 km & 5-60 Mbps. Deal could exceed €200m.
Bislang sollte die Führung von mobil eingesetzten Kräften der Bundeswehr über weitere Distanzen in erster Linie mittels Satellitenkommunikation und Richtfunk erfolgen, bald soll dies nun auch wieder über Troposphärenfunk in größerem Maßstab möglich werden.
hartpunkt.de/satellitenunabh…
stromgade retweeted
You're right, @elonmusk. Someone has grown very rich off money flowing from Ukraine. I work in Starlink supply to Ukraine, so I see these numbers firsthand.
Ukrainians bought 117,000 terminals in September alone (~$42M), plus monthly subscriptions for each one. And that's just official commercial imports. Not counting government contracts, donor-funded deliveries, direct orders from your website or grey imports.
No laundry machines needed. It goes straight to SpaceX.
stromgade retweeted
Ukrainians keep showing enormous courage in defending their country against Putin’s immoral and indeed evil efforts to conquer a neighbor. They have resisted now for four years and eight months and we should do all we can to help them.
stromgade retweeted
⚡️Starshield operations restored to speeds of more than 400 km/h, Ukraine's Defense Ministry says.
"We record a speed of more than 400 kilometers per hour, the connection is stable," the ministry said.
kyivindependent.com/starshie…
