The U.K. Space Agency has worked with partners to activate the Copernicus Emergency Management Service to provide satellite mapping to aid the response to fires burning on Saddleworth Moor, Greater Manchester. U.K. satellite imagery was also provided to government officials co-ordinating the response to help provide initial estimates of the scale of the blaze. The…
ESA Astronaut Tim Peake Controls British-Built Rover from Space
As part of an international experiment to prepare for human-robotic missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond, British ESA astronaut Tim Peake today successfully controlled, from the ISS, a UK-built rover located in a test facility at Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage. Building on previous test campaigns in the European Space Agency-led Meteron project,…