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ESAIL
European satellite for maritime tracking From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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ESAIL was a small satellite developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) in partnership with LuxSpace and ExactEarth.[1][2][3] Its objective was worldwide tracking of ships using their automatic identification systems (AIS)[4][5][6] for fisheries monitoring, fleet management, environmental protection, and security monitoring.[7][8][9] The satellite was launched in September 2020 on the Vega flight VV16 from Guiana Space Centre.[10][11][12][13][14] In a record-breaking technology demonstration, the satellite managed to process more than 2,000,000 messages from 70,000 different ships in a single day, representing a 15% to 20% improvement over previous satellites.[15][16][17]
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