AGP Executive Report
Last update: an hour agoSpace & Weather: MTG-I2, Europe’s next geostationary weather satellite, has successfully launched on Ariane 6 from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana, carrying Teledyne’s CIS111 detector in the Flexible Combined Imager to deliver faster scans every 2.5 minutes and enable continuous lightning detection across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Spaceports & Launch Industry: ESA is also pushing Europe’s launcher supply with its European Launcher Challenge, signing first contracts totaling €543.6M for Rocket Factory Augsburg (€186.9M), PLD Space (€158.9M), and Isar Aerospace (€197.8M), with providers required to demonstrate orbital capability by 2028. Agriculture from Orbit: FLEX, being integrated at Kourou for a September 14 Vega-C launch, is set to measure crop and forest photosynthesis stress from space—aimed at catching drought impacts earlier than standard greenness-based monitoring. Mining & Investment (Suriname): Centurion Minerals signed an LOI to acquire an 80% interest in the Brothers Gold Project in eastern Suriname, adding a large historical exploration database and multiple gold-bearing structural corridors.
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