March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
... that satellites gather to the world, but to utilise such information as a means of solving the issue of climate change. Climate change is an Earth-bound problem that, today, requires space technology for its solution, and this is a challenge we must...
April 2018
Climate monitoring and the need for open access to global environmental satellite data
... still restrict access, which means that not all collected data is contributing to our global understanding of climate change. This problem has not gone unnoticed. It has been referenced in reports and statements of international organisations for...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
...they are risk averse they’ve become innovation averse. What has changed is that a whole bunch of entrepreneurs have seen a ...down to ground securely, in real time Earth imaging and change detection is currently interesting for investors. For example, a...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
... that it could someday be launched. While Triana slumbered, wrapped in plastic at a NASA facility, the world was rapidly changing. Wingo Wong, a Spire engineer, works on satellite assembly at the company’s Glasgow office. In 1999, three years before...
October 2017
Colouring our view of the oceans
... dangerous but downright devastating Ocean colour data have truly global importance as they help monitor climate change: ocean colour is one of the Essential Climate Variables (ECV) listed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Phytoplankton...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
... to countries with operational space science missions, but the growing volume and variety of infrastructure interconnections has changed the status of space weather among the space community, while the magnitude of the associated terrestrial hazards...
