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...
October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... the sake of clarity, a clear distinction is maintained between civil and military satellite surveillance, although remote sensing data from satellites is often dual-use and so in reality the distinction is never fully clear. MILITARY REMOTE SENSING...
24 November 2021
Astronomers discover more than 350 possible new exoplanets
... during its first mission as they have with the K2 data, meaning that each individual exoplanet of interest has required some... Zink and colleagues. A fifth could be hiding too but data limitations have meant that the team were unable to confirm its...
25 April 2023
Cloud-based platform to be used for satellite imagery analysis
... real-time compression, streaming, and analysis of hyperspectral data from low Earth orbit (LEO). The company is also...achieves this by leveraging hyperspectral sensors and analysing the data captured in real-time using artificial intelligence (AI) via...
