Politico: Portrait über Space-Eye und Searchwing

Europe’s migration crisis seen from orbit

REGENSBURG, Germany – In images taken from a satellite floating 400 kilometers above the Earth, Europe’s humanitarian crisis shows up as white pixels against the blue-green vastness of the Mediterranean. Captured by the sensors in space, small overcrowded boats with migrants leaving Africa headed north look like tiny white comets bursting through the ocean, leaving a tail where they stir waves.

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Help from Space

Help from Space

Sea-Eye rescue organization to get support via satellite imagery

The German-run private rescue organization „Sea-Eye“ is getting help from space to better serve its mission to rescue migrant boats in distress in the Mediterranean. On Friday, Sea-Eye founder Michael Buschheuer announced the launch of a new charity called „Space-Eye,“ which is to start reconnaissance and documentation work on the maritime zone off the Libyan coast „in the coming weeks.“