April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
.... Space Florida has made great progress in modernising and re-purposing Air Force and NASA infrastructure In 2016, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos announced that his space company Blue Origin had selected Florida as the site for...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... 21309) cost £109.99 when released in 2017, but is no longer available in the UK (although it sells for £170-180 on Amazon); list price in the US is $95.99 where available. The Apollo 11 Lunar Lander kit (10266) is £84.99 and the ISS kit...
March 2021
Data may be the new oil... but its real value is in actionable information
... at global scales. A really impressive example of this new, ‘golden age’ of EO was a test run by Maxar where the Amazon Web Services ‘ground station as a service’ infrastructure was exploited to access data from one of its satellites as it passed...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
...such as those announced for internet-from-space by Boeing (1396 satellites), SpaceX (Starlink, 4425 satellites) and Amazon (Kuiper, 3236 satellites). It is expected that mass-production will considerably reduce manufacturing costs while allowing high...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... extant GEO satellite transmissions and a pretty phenomenal piece of network management software… but the financial resources of Amazon are clearly very large. Existing GEO systems aren’t the only potential sources of RF contention though. As the...
May 2022
Redefining the space professional – disruptions in the space sector workforce
... at problem solving. Professionals with MIT’s Professional Certificate Program in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect - Associate etc, are examples of a baseline ‘soft-skill’ requirement...
