June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
Watching the movie The Martian recently I was captured by the creativity demonstrated by two key characters - the astronaut stranded on Mars, played by Matt Damon, and the astrodynamicist from NASA’s ...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... with acquiring the first 10 m images after the explosion of Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. SPOT 1 demonstrated one of the main benefits of commercial remote sensing for intelligence missions: that it can be shared with anyone...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... that failure cost the United States - and the world as well. If we look at history and economics, they demonstrate that the overall decline of our global society is, in no small part, due to our inability to capitalise on the Apollo...
October 2017
Colouring our view of the oceans
.... Today’s satellites are now so advanced that they can actually observe algae from space, a capability first demonstrated 40 years ago when the true extent of global living oceans was unveiled by the launch of the proof...
March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
...Many private companies in the US rely on government support in the form of grants or contracts and the Act demonstrates a willingness by the US government to allow innovation in the private sector. In particular, NASA is dedicated to entrepreneurship...
January 2019
Is the NewSpace bubble about to burst?
... Valley had become from real world business models, the new NewSpace industry currently seems intent on demonstrating the same about the space sector. Numerous planned nanosatellite constellations are struggling to raise funding… and...
