April 2021
Satellites in the cloud: data from orbit
... targeting new-age business models that leverage the cloud. While the cloud was a backend concern relegated to niche use ... raw EO data is expected to be downlinked by 2029 onto cloud servers. There are a few main factors driving this market: the...
08 February 2017
Bridge between the Magellanic Clouds discovered
... and easy visibility in the night sky the Magellanic Clouds were discovered in antiquity, astronomers were unable to study...reveals the satellite's orbit. "Stellar streams around the Clouds were predicted but never observed," explains Dr Belokurov,...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
... They, in partnership with Lockheed Martin, announced a service aimed at combining the power of space communications and the cloud by co-locating satellite communications antennas with AWS data-centres. While spurring much debate and discussion among...
15 August 2016
Was early Mars warmed by cirrus cloud cover?
... Mars. Building on the impact theory but with cloud coverage to stabilise the climate, two researchers based ...test different (ice) crystal sizes, cloud thicknesses, and cloud fractions to simulate differing cloud feedback mechanisms on the Red Planet...
05 March 2018
Asteroid tracking program adds Google Cloud and AGI as tech partners
... in the confines of some government agency to be used by only a select few, but instead is being designed as an open-source, cloud-based infrastructure. This will allow the science and business community to use it as a baseline for comparison and...
29 October 2018
A rare discovery helps scientists measure a key process in star formation
... is given the sinister title of a dark molecular cloud because its chief component, molecular hydrogen, is either ... to form, you will have a better understanding of dark cloud formation, which in turn will provide more information on star formation...
