October 2025
High-altitude platforms - the search for an optimised legal framework
... and night coverage of the territory below. Target applications include search and rescue missions, disaster relief, environmental monitoring and agriculture. Political realm Realpolitik seems all but certain to override the anachronistic and high...
29 September 2022
UK gives space junk clearance missions priority funding
...wide array of human activities, such as transport systems, climate change monitoring, financial transactions and weather forecasting.” Orbital congestion and space debris ... across the fields of communications, navigation to environmental monitoring.
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
... data available globally. Current initiatives seek to leverage remote sensing for purposes such as resource management and environmental monitoring, among others. These data have even been extended for use by the average individual who can...
November 2025
Searching for life beyond Earth
... could be adapted not just for Venus, but for many other worlds - even Earth - in applications like environmental monitoring or biosensing in extreme environments. It’s early days, but this is the kind of bold, creative leap we need if we’re serious...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
...they said “has been largely reduced to a logistics agency concentrating on space station resupply and politically correct environmental monitoring,” I.e issues affecting climate change. Their statement also echoed that of Senator John McCain, as they...
19 April 2019
Mission to Mars by 2033 not viable says independent report
... itself; “overall, the Gateway presents medium technology risk because certain technologies (e.g., xenon refuelling and autonomous environmental monitoring) have not been previously demonstrated at the scale required by the Gateway,” says the report...
