February 2021
In-orbit servicing and insurance – a marriage of convenience?
...appear on a daily basis. Therefore, the risks related to conventional in-orbit satellite operation and the risks related to IOS should be recognised separately. This is important also in the context of the insurance coverage, which tackles the target...
February 2018
CubeSats changing the landscape for ‘app’ developers
.... A similar approach has been taken by Apple with iOS, albeit on its proprietary hardware and both approaches have... what has been done in the smartphone arena with Android and iOS. ESA recently developed a framework dedicated to CubeSats, the NanoSat ...
June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
... spacecraft communicate with Earth, using then-current software and hardware technology. In 2015, our Android and iOS phones have themselves become pocket computers, you can use a cluster of the latest PlayStation devices as a supercomputer...
June 2015
The book of flight
... Aviobook is all about. Aviobook is a software system that consists of two components: an app running on a tablet, either Windows or iOS. And the second component is a backend piece, a grand server if you will, which is talking to the tablet. At the...
October 2015
From NEOs to real action: testing asteroid impact scenarios
... such as mobile hospitals, civilian and military doctors and nurses, in addition to medical supplies in concert with IOs, NGOs and organisations such as Medicins Sans Frontiers. Understandably, as a result of the nature of the exercise participants...
11 February 2019
Earth's magnetic north pole is on the move and its going fast
... smartphone for example, contains a magnetometer that measures Earth’s magnetic field. In order to make sense of this information, iOS and Android operating systems use the magnetic model to correct the measurements to true geographic north. The...
