August 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
... to fly in the atmosphere, not in space. For those familiar with the Space Shuttle programme, this is our ‘Enterprise’ - we needed to test controllability of the vehicle, see how it flew in the atmosphere and how it landed. An artist’s impression...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
... also be used by the regimes that they are fleeing to target vulnerable populations, and can be used by criminal enterprises to take advantage of migrants. Further, such observation also has implications for privacy and other human rights...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
..., in this case it was a Russian airlock being pushed open by an American who had used the democratic free enterprise system to make the money he used to pay the former Soviets to beat the resistance of the US government to stop...
November 2018
Connecting and collaborating for innovation
... Government’s economic and community development agency for the north and west of Scotland, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, and local National Health Service organisations. In remote areas patients and healthcare workers often have to travel...
November 2018
Purpose, promise and power – video from space
... or a developing situation. With demand growing and costs coming down, there are tremendous opportunities for private enterprise to offer innovative EO products. The Vivid-i Earth-i satellite constellation is being built by SSTL. Big and free data...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
... in satellite development and production as well as dividing system complexity to a level manageable by small and medium-sized enterprises.” The iBOSS design attacks one of the key problems of modular design, which is the interfaces between modules...
