July 2017
Hunting for neutrinos in the ice of Antarctica
... operational, the stations use very little power. With less than 5 watts, the stations are able to digitize the detected radio waves at up to 2 billion samples (Gsamples) per second and a sophisticated chip searches for coincidences...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... nations are becoming active players in EO. This affects both the competition and the accessible market. The digital Earth challenge. For example, since mid-2016, SI imaging Services (South Korea) has been distributing VHR...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
... being built in South Africa and Australia, will increase our sensitivity to signals. In addition, the unremitting march of digital technology has allowed more of the radio spectrum to be sampled in a given amount of time. For radio telescope arrays...
September 2017
India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship
... space supply chain. About the author Narayan Prasad is co-founder of satsearch.co and curator of NewSpace India, a digital platform providing analysis of issues in technology, policy, economics, commercialisation, geo-politics and defence around the...
September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
... mine for FRB discoveries. This 50-year-old telescope has been refitted and refurbished with a new digital back end system to be transformed and reborn into an FRB hunting machine. The telescope’s unique architecture can...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
... is one of the main engines driving the expansion of small satellite constellations, with companies such as Astro Digital, DigitalGlobe, or the well-known Planet. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists’ database there were, on 31 December...
