August 2018
Earth observation game-changer
...uses for SAR expanded into research such as measuring changes in glaciers, coastal erosion, vegetation structures, identification... satellite. Human-scale detection What matters for human-scale change detection is to be able to answer questions such as...
February 2021
In-orbit servicing and insurance – a marriage of convenience?
... tracked from Earth. As a result of the possibility of in–orbit inspection determining the cause of loss, this situation may change substantially in future. For the same reason, any exposure assessment would be much easier, leading potentially to the...
April 2021
Making space part of the everyday European agenda
...I used as a trigger to look deeper into what we do and change the way we work in ESA. This opened the door for us ...fragility of our planet. It also helps to predict climate change under various parameters like temperature increase and the melting of ...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
...technology, computer and communications networks, artificial intelligence, robotics and the ability to go into space, the rate of change in human civilization has increased exponentially. The ‘Super Month’ graphic compresses time since the age of the...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
...walked on another world - we are reminded of how much can change in 10 short years. Back in 1960, America’s human spaceflight ... in a single 10-year period… but that might be about to change. In 2010, with the costly Space Shuttle about to be retired,...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
.... The cost of such a system would clearly be in the tens of billions of dollars, but the destructive impacts of climate change in terms of hurricanes, typhoons, tornados, flooding of cities and other adverse effects such as fires and air pollution...
