October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
...of JUICE. Each image shows Jupiter’s appearance at a range of different wavelengths, from visible colouration and wind tracking to cloud properties in the near-IR; thermal structure and chemistry in the mid-IR and auroral properties in the UV. On the...
June 2018
Striding through space
...showed his free flying figure silhouetted against the clouds and blue ocean Live television broadcast showed first... rose. Television showed his free flying figure silhouetted against the clouds and blue ocean. He departed by the open payload bay doors...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... to a pair of balloon aerobots that circled the planet’s sulphuric-acid clouds at an altitude of 54 km for several months. The motherships were ...for the first time giving us insight into the cloud composition and its evolution. Another example is NASA...
September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
...be running a very outdated Windows XP system. Satellite safety Unlike traditional enterprise systems, satellites cannot be hosted ‘in the cloud’. They must be placed in specific orbits and have specific roles. An often-used analogy for servers in the...
October 2019
Making the most of Blockchain in space
...-stop shop. It is using a blockchain-based cloud infrastructure, self-executing smart contracts and marketplace-specific ... “We’ve found that with the combination of our current cloud-based infrastructure and our new blockchain-based backbone for smart...
January 2020
Discipline - a formula for success in the Earth observation market EO sector
... the globe to datacentres is best accomplished through the vast resources of major cloud providers. There is no need to reinvent the transport system when the cloud has already provided elastic resources to handle far more traffic than EO data...
