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...
March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
... development hardware to support R&D processes. Since the compact Gecko imaging payload first flew in 2017 as a technology demonstrator on the nSight-1 satellite, SAC and ISIS worked to package the imager as a standalone RGB imaging payload for...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... doubt, this is one of the most important questions of our age. Is our Earth, teaming with life as it so demonstrably is, really an exception in an immense but uninhabited universe full of galaxies, each with billions of stars surrounded by planetary...
