On 4 October the first meeting on the topic “Fundamentals of Space Information Technologies” took place within the framework of the educational course “Fundamentals of Space Activities”. During this lecture Natalia Kussul spoke about the main problems of satellite monitoring in the world, geospatial intelligence, about the era of big data and about the sources of information where satellite data can be accessed. The next meeting will look at sources of information at a more detailed level.