August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
..., based in Palo Alto, recently received US$20 million in new investment, including US$5 million from In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the US intelligence community. Orbital Insights gathers its data through contracts with EO data owners and the ...
September 2017
India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship
... for ISRO. Similarly, EO data distribution to Indian users is performed by the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), an arm of ISRO dealing with remote sensing data reception, processing and dissemination to users. However, with NewSpace companies...
October 2017
Saving geostationary orbit
... away from the Earth), and can be used to establish a physical link using either a probe or a set of grappling arms fitted to the tug. Attaching a space tug to a cooperative, stable target spacecraft is not a trivial engineering challenge, but...
November 2017
Advancing maritime intelligence with real-time satellite AIS
... and immediate alerting of vessels entering the perilous regions, is being provided for the first time by exactEarth. Armed with real-time data, officials can now closely monitor all traffic ensuring the safest routes...
November 2017
Geospatial maritime solutions
... Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities, Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services, Association of Old Crows and Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association.
February 2018
CubeSats changing the landscape for ‘app’ developers
... trying new operational concepts in space. It has an experimental platform composed of a system-on-chip device with 1 GB of RAM, an ARM 925 MHz processor and a lightweight version of Linux. This allows many software experiments to be tested in space...
