September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... that occurred during Earth’s history. On the other hand, hydrothermal vents, certain sedimentary formations and other geo-chemical environments are considered to be very likely locations for the first forms of life to have emerged. Likewise...
April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... require less data, allowing connectivity even under narrow bandwidth conditions. A combination of platforms at different altitudes using GEO and LEO satellites, planes and cellular towers. Recently, Facebook also partnered with Paris-based Eutelsat...
April 2017
Mega-challenges for mega-constellations
... in post mission disposal. This information is gathered from the automated analysis of surveillance data on LEO and geostationary (GEO) objects. About 114 satellites in LEO reach end of life per year. Since the beginning of the analysis...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
... Galileo satellites in low Earth orbit. These constellations of 20-30 satellites in a medium orbit of ~20,000 km (and some in GEO), constantly broadcast a stream of signals that allow us to accurately locate ourselves, navigate around our planet, and...
September 2017
India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship
....co and curator of NewSpace India, a digital platform providing analysis of issues in technology, policy, economics, commercialisation, geo-politics and defence around the Indian space programme. He has a Master in Space Technology (Erasmus Mundus...
November 2017
Advancing maritime intelligence with real-time satellite AIS
... activity, Satellite AIS (S-AIS) has become a very powerful tool in the delivery of MDA to a variety of maritime and geo-intelligence users. The ability to readily know the who, what and when of any transiting vessel is critical...
