May 2017
Humanity is moving towards a new reality
... innovation? There was a time in human existence when change took millions of years. Then it took thousands of ...years, then decades, years, and now it seems as if our world changes in only hours or minutes. In another century it seems likely that ...
February 2018
Growth drivers, requirements and threats in the smallsat industry
...satellite is deployed from outside of the Japanese Kibo module on the ISS. Intended to observe Earth and monitor climate changes, this was the first microsatellite owned by the Philippine government that involved Filipino engineers in the development...
March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
...a project that may be cut or rearranged with every change of administration. As the private sector is becoming increasingly ...mitigation of geopolitical risks, security, science, knowledge, climate change and a digital Europe. The ESA Digital Agenda...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... destruction. There are other hazards from space, including the human-generated problem of orbital debris. Even climate change - a complex issue that involves the interaction of human industry and solar radiation on Earth’s atmosphere - is a form...
November 2018
Monitoring illegal rainforest deforestation
... Budget Office of the US Congress, the vast amount of carbon stored in forests worldwide indicates their important role in climate change. The trees in forests are estimated to store the equivalent of roughly 760 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... Earth’s environment is a top agenda topic today and we have a worldwide grouping of nations seeking to limit the impact of climate change via CO2 emission controls – all monitored from space, of course. Section cropped from a panorama known as Plus...
