... Iranian President Ahmadinejad later stated that the launch had failed. In fact, Iran had already launched a satellite (Sina-1) using a Russian vehicle launched from Plesetsk on 27 October 2005. Much of Iran’s development of ballistic missiles and...
... dangers posed by the current preponderance of space debris have been well documented, while increasing the numbers of satellites serves only to increase the risk of a serious in-orbit collision. Current guidelines seek to prevent the creation of new...
...– inspiration. These are not compelling arguments to put before rational government treasuries and so the wider benefits of satellites are then appropriated as part of the rationale – benefits that can no longer be traced (if they ever were) to human...
...majority of the applications mentioned above, the value is not in the consumption of EO data. It is in the information leveraged from satellites and combined with other sources of data in order to create a data-driven product of value to the end user...
...its offer of assistance, or remove itself from any such voluntary organisation, even though it is not as easy as it sounds. Satellite image of refugee camp at the Syrian-Jordanian border taken by UrtheCast’s Deimos-2. Protected data The real question...
...realise it, the UK is in the premier league of world space technology, from instrumentation, data science and satellite operations to satellite manufacture. Government decisions over the past two decades, combined with a strong engineering base, mean...