March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
...deployment from the International Space Station. And the capital being invested is at a tipping point, with Planet Labs having recently completed a $90 million USD round of financing, with an estimated company valuation of $250 million USD. NanoRacks...
January 2019
Smallsat revolution and AI kick-start nascent EO big data market
...and Urthecast) and AI analytics startups (Orbital Insight, Descartes Labs) are bullish about the defence and government market. The..., while AI analytics startups like Orbital Insight, Descartes Labs and Ursa have been successful in selling insights to...
January 2017
Israeli students inspired by nano-satellite projects
...the first student nano-satellite global network. In this lab, students worked hard to create the facilities required to ...a group of five Israeli high schools led by the Herzliya Space Lab. Duchifat-1 in its final integration stage. In order to promote...
May 2021
Dream big and reach the stars
... exploration. Having graduated with a degree in biology, she works as a research biologist in the Harvard Medical School’s Jackson Lab, studying immunology and inflammation of disease and non-disease states through advanced genetic methods. She has...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
... Earth observation satellites, as well as the revolutionary changes in satellite imagery brought about by commercial companies like Planet Labs and Terra Bella, are an integral part of this trend toward transparency. In the Middle East alone, high...
March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
...student BSc Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Copenhagen. Member of iGEM2016 Team CosmoCrops, responsible for biology lab & physics lab. Fouzia Hamid Akhtar, student MSc Biology-Biotechnology, University of Copenhagen. Member of iGEM Team...