November 2018
Monitoring illegal rainforest deforestation
...designed optical instrument onboard a low-cost 16U CubeSat platform will generate a huge set of images (big data) at different illumination levels, which will demand sophisticated algorithms to detect the emergence of clandestine roads using advanced...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
... a course that would lead to a deep reliance on satellite data and technology. Now, 60 years and over 8,000 satellite launches .... Each day billions of people around the world rely on data from satellites to go about their lives. We exchange messages,...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
... each passing year, due to tidal interaction with our planet. Data from LLRE shows that the distance is increasing by 3.82 +/- ...microwave background without inflated ideas. Do the Planck CMB data contain evidence of a cyclical cosmology? Dark energy ...
January 2020
Apollo girl - camaraderie and discrimination in the Apollo era
... obtained a reassignment. No longer a ‘girl’ After 12 years at Goddard, I became a programme manager in the Office of Space Tracking and Data Systems (OSTDS). Now in my 30s, I was no longer a ‘girl’, but I was the only female engineer in the division...
October 2020
Essential role of satellites in disaster and pandemic management
... flood disaster in April 2020. Following detailed observation planning, a satellite can be used to monitor a disaster’s evolution, record data and transmit it to the ground for analysis and fast report response. Members may intervene to assist in the...
August 2021
AI in space – a legal perspective
... behaviour. It also encompasses machine learning (ML), which is based on the capability for machines to automatically ‘learn’ from previous data and improve their accuracy over time without being directly programmed. Thus, AI and ML are reshaping our...
