March 2015
Shipping, the environment and satellite AIS
... Areas and ships unlawfully dumping oil into the water. Officials can analyse maritime traffic patterns in geo-fenced areas and develop effective refinements and routing changes to ensure vessels avoid the protected zones...
March 2015
Chasing comets together: the Vega project in the USSR and beyond
... a captured asteroid. The project was first suggested by the Institute of Applied Mathematics (IAM) and the Institute of Geo- and Analytical Chemistry (IGAC). But during its development it moved under Institute of Space Exploration (ISE) management...
June 2015
Drone regulation in the European Union amid a thriving market
... Institute of Technology is considering a project to use RPAS in Africa to deliver goods using pre-determined routes that would be geo-fenced. The French Postal Services have successfully flown a 6-rotor drone over a distance of 1200m carrying a 2kg...
June 2015
Watching over alpine explorers
... between mission control and search and rescue team. Highly detailed map data (topographical maps and geo-referenced orthographic photos) are necessary for mission control as well as for the mountain rescuers. Sarontar is designed...
October 2015
Growing space businesses in the UK: from incubation centres to public funding
... contribution to the European Space Agency’s budget coming from the UK, more is coming back to the UK in terms of absolute geo-return (the process by which ESA ‘returns’ the money to the UK in the form of industrial contracts). Indeed, at times...
October 2015
Down to Earth: how to deorbit satellites and save money
... not only affect LEO and large constellations of satellites, but disrupt the business-as-usual scenarios, including GEO and MEO satellites. As space gets more crowded, it is important to be able to clear occupied slots to make way for...
