April 2021
Satellites in the cloud: data from orbit
... chain is underway, and major players continue to place their bets. The cloud computing via satellite market is communications-centric, in terms of both data traffic and service revenues. This is driven largely by demand in the maritime, aero...
April 2021
Making space part of the everyday European agenda
..., were beginning to emerge into the EO domain. I decided that if ESA wanted, as a publicly funded body, to be relevant to the community at large we had first of all to understand not only what’s going on but also adapt and work alongside...
April 2021
Predicting dengue fever outbreaks from space
.... It was devised by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Climate Centre to be used for communicating the value of probabilistic weather forecasts to farmers in Africa. It was adapted by the D-MOSS team for dengue forecasting...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
...estates. At this point the tools will be in hand - and hopefully the funds - to set up an experimental desert community. That community would in turn be a testing ground for new technologies - for construction, recycling, local manufacturing and food...
May 2021
Taking quantum into space
... or global secure network using quantum cryptography which can span different countries augmenting existing encryption and communication networks around the world. Quantum repeaters remain a potential solution, but in practise, they have never been...
May 2021
In-situ propellant design for Mars ascent vehicles
... corrosive nature of the environment, make the surface of Venus nearly impossible to survive. A major goal of the space community is to engender an Earth-independent era for space exploration According to the data obtained from spacecraft, Mars has...
