AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoSpace & Weather Monitoring (Kourou): ESA’s Meteosat Third Generation Imager-2 (MTG-I2) has successfully launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on an Ariane 6, with the satellite now in orbit and moving through early operations; once fully commissioned, it will deliver rapid-scan weather updates every 2.5 minutes to improve warnings for severe storms, hail, damaging winds and continuous lightning detection across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Launch Industry (European Launcher Challenge): ESA has signed its first European Launcher Challenge contracts, backing Rocket Factory Augsburg (€186.9M), PLD Space (€158.9M) and Isar Aerospace (€197.8M) to demonstrate orbital launch capability by 2028—an effort to expand Europe’s sovereign access to space, with PLD Space’s MIURA 5 tied to operations in French Guiana. Agri-Tech from Orbit (FLEX): Engineers at Kourou are integrating ESA’s FLEX satellite for a September 14 Vega-C launch, aiming to measure photosynthesis stress in crops and forests from space—designed to spot drought damage earlier than today’s “looks-green” monitoring. Mining & Deals (Suriname, Guiana Shield): Centurion Minerals signed an LOI to acquire an 80% interest in the Brothers Gold Project in eastern Suriname, while Gold Fields is investing about US$55.7M to raise its stake in Founders Metals toward full control of the Antino gold project. Forestry Context: A new ranking highlights how global forest area is dominated by a handful of countries, with Russia leading at 20.1% of the world total.
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