January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... that the real enabler is the lower cost of launch, which will allow the construction of giant solar farms in space, manufacturing in space and so on. In the further future, when we consider, for example, the ambitions of Asgardia the...
April 2020
Evolutionary lessons for an interplanetary future
... for Mars habitats include radiation shielding, but even a short amount of time spent on the surface - for farming, repairs, or exploration - would increase the radiation exposure. This radiation exposure means that people living on Mars...
March 2021
Data may be the new oil... but its real value is in actionable information
.... This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image (August 2016) illustrates where vegetation has been cleared away for logging, farming and other activities. In 2006, data scientist Clive Humby coined the phrase “data is the new oil...
March 2021
iPhone moment for the Earth observation industry
...example would be an executive user from a financial services company analysing the crop yield prediction values for a farm in order to finalise the risk assessment of his investment portfolio. Building unicorns The Earth observation industry is going...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... active) Cultured meat and milk products, replacing the inefficiencies, cruelties and contamination risks of modern animal farming Systems for treatment and recycling of human waste from off-grid dwellings Robotics, artificial intelligence and...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
... change, they can certainly help to quantify its magnitude and inform the agricultural industry of how best to farm in the future. That represents an impressive contribution for a detector made from a little-known compound semiconductor, formed...
