29 March 2018
The Secret Genesis of Area 51
... nonexistent flight test facility” has acquired several identities including Dreamland, Paradise Ranch and the Pig Farm. It’s good to read an inside story to something that was once a ‘state secret’, but I doubt that even a dozen...
12 February 2019
Fleet Space Technologies hits major milestone with Project Galaxy
... Galaxy’s mass-scale IoT deployments are endless from tracking cattle on Australia’s most remote outback farms, to monitoring temperature fluctuations in bee hives across California, to safety applications along Canada’s essential oil pipelines...
19 June 2019
Shoot for the Moon
... first words of the first chapter: “One Saturday morning in October 1957, a 14-year-old boy in the small farming town of Fremont, Iowa, woke up to find the world a different place.” The event, of course, was Sputnik, but...
06 March 2020
Space set to generate 15,000 high-level new green jobs
... Natural environment investment analysts Space-data enabled crop managers Agricultural satellite advisers Space capability farm machinery retrofitters Natural disaster hotspot monitoring consultants Space data traffic control operatives Space data...
01 April 2020
Alcohol in Space
... space station. In consideration of the foodstuffs from which alcohol can be fermented, the author makes a detour into “farming in space”, then concludes with some “final thoughts” (such as “there is an enormous cloud of alcohol 6,500 light years...
20 July 2020
Satellite technology supports project to replace soy in livestock feed
... compared with soy, which is one of the four largest crops in the world. However, soy relies on arable farming, requires a lot of water and contributes significantly to mass deforestation and biodiversity loss. Conversely, DryGro plans to cultivate...
