Welcome to satelliteobservation.net! On this site, you will find in-depth content about the Earth Observation industry and the changes it is going through. For day-to-day news, I also have a twitter account here that you can follow.
The articles on national reconnaissance systems are:
For the United States
History of the US reconnaissance system
History of the US high-altitude SIGINT system
A radiotelescope in the sky: the USA-202 ORION satellite
For China
The Chinese maritime surveillance system
The Yaogan-30 high-revisit constellation
GF-11: How do you say KENNEN in Chinese?
For France
France’s new space defense strategy
History of the French reconnaissance system
Space Situational Awareness news from the Paris Airshow
Space & Defence policy speech by the French Minister of the Armed Forces
French generals discuss military space
Hearing of the French Joint Commander for Space
For other countries/institutions
Everything you wanted to know about Copernicus
Articles on commercial solutions/plans are:
The Airbus Very High Resolution constellation
Safran’s high-performance imager for cubesats
The articles on Signal Intelligence satellites are:
Signal intelligence 101: SIGINT targets
History of the US high-altitude SIGINT system
A radiotelescope in the sky: the USA-202 ORION satellite
The Chinese maritime surveillance system
The Yaogan-30 high-revisit constellation
Prospective articles on the future of earth observation are:
The Future of Optical Earth Observation
What do users really want, anyway?
High-altitude Pseudosatellites, the future of Earth observation?
The articles touching on warfare in space are:
Contested space II: Countermeasures
France’s new space defense strategy
Space Situational Awareness news from the Paris Airshow
Space & Defence policy speech by the French Minister of the Armed Forces
Article on launchers are:
CNES’ director of launchers talks reusable rockets
Other articles are:
A database of observation satellites
Good reading!
