July 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... was not being deployed to save the Earth from a massive solar storm, modulating solar radiation to reduce climate change and overheating of the atmosphere? It is more than a little thrilling to think of an invention that could literally save the...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... were usually explorers from necessity, not choice; to find new resources, food, places to live and survive as climates changed or populations became threatened. Only in recent centuries has exploration taken the form of personal ventures rather than...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
... the Copernicus programme, which will help scientists to understand changes to weather patterns, track various storms and monitor climate change. While Lynred’s detectors can’t prevent climate change, they can certainly help to quantify its magnitude...
14 November 2019
Met services prepare for next-generation satellite systems
...and next-generation instruments on EPS-SG," Mahovi said. Both systems will make significant contributions to monitoring climate change, adding to existing knowledge gained from EUMETSAT's more than 40 years' of satellite observations and creating new...
April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
... of space technologies, both as critical enablers of our everyday activities and as solutions to big and urgent problems like climate change. For example, over the last year, governments and businesses have embraced satellite data to track the...
19 May 2016
GLIS 2016: How Space Contributes to a Better World?
... Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction The Agenda 2030 with its Sustainable Development Goals The Paris Climate Change Agreement Whereas the Sendai Framework focus on disaster management and reduction and the Paris Agreement concentrates...
