September 2017
India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship
...ecosystem perspective is taken to encourage NewSpace in India by creating an independent, single-window led, transparent and time capped framework taking into account both upstream and downstream requirements across the value chain. Creating dynamism...
November 2017
Advancing maritime intelligence with real-time satellite AIS
... that lie beneath this icy landscape. Just as ships in the Arctic manoeuvre around the melting ice caps, off the coast of Australia in the beautiful turquoise waters of the Great Barrier Reef, massive tanker ships...
August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
... images in order to identify the ML items in the oceans, and a capability to filter false alarms caused by foam, white caps and other floating organic objects such as algae and large animals. Finally, this technique does not...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... Mars, using ISRU to unlock and exploit frozen water is vital. Water ice locked up at the south polar cap is expected to be extensive. If melted, it is estimated that it could entirely cover the planet’s surface to 11 m depth. NASA also believes...
September 2019
Extending the life of geostationary orbit satellites
... would require complex and risky robotic ‘satellite surgery’ involving cutting into thermal insulation blankets, unscrewing caps and sawing into valves, followed by all the processes required to reseal the satellite after fuelling. Once...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
... Earth’s early atmosphere a pathway to be deposited onto the lunar surface in both the northern and southern polar caps. Back story The collision caused both planets to temporarily splatter apart into globs of gas, magma, volatiles...
