20 July 2020
Satellite technology supports project to replace soy in livestock feed
... incredibly fast, doubling in biomass every two days. The challenge for this pioneering project is to make it commercially viable compared with soy, which is one of the four largest crops in the world. However, soy relies on arable farming, requires...
09 July 2021
Skyrora launches challenge to de-orbit historic satellite
... from waste plastic, Ecosene could prevent more than 3,000 tons of unrecyclable plastic going to landfill by 2030. The challenge was issued during an exclusive Skyrora event organised as part of Space-Comm Expo at Farnborough, UK, this week attended...
November 2019
Strategic role of government in space commercialisation
... periodically on this metric. Ultimately, our report found that a strategic investment fund may not be the best approach to address the challenges facing the space sector. Government support for those companies whose products will take longer than...
March 2021
Eyes on the prize
... companies to sponsor other prizes. Given the scale of the challenge prizes proposed and the wider economic mission, it is unlikely they would deliver the ambitious advances we need without the lion’s share of funding coming from central...
17 December 2019
Earth’s doomsday scenario
... than 50 presentations, each of which provided an insight into one of the challenging themes discussed in talks, panel sessions and posters. A core vision of Asgardia the Space Nation is to achieve the first birth of a child in space and, in doing...
14 April 2021
Satellite support for Scottish seafood industry
..., but with potential applications to Scottish waters. "The key is that our research is driven by the challenges faced by the sector - rather than the technology itself. We want to explore the possibilities from systems that already exist, rather than...
