February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... move from ambition to action on what was laid out in Agenda 2025 (the strategy I developed to raise Europe’s game in space when I became Director General of ESA) and therefore towards tangible, programmatic and systematic commitments to create...
May 2022
Using space data to improve life on Earth
... to scale it into the dozens. It is a perfect example of the way that our Space Services offering is changing the game in the space industry - empowering a whole new category of space companies that do not need to develop, own, or operate...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... fund offering strategic capital to breakthrough solutions across the Technology of Flight and sustainability. TFO invests in game changing technologies in the air and space ecosystem including satellites, autonomy, drones, cyber security, AI data...
June 2022
Pandemic parallels
... uncertainty after their ship became trapped in pack ice in 1915. A strict routine and diversions such as football games, sprightly tunes from a banjo and a vision of success all helped to keep morale high. A team of researchers recently...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... to ‘cash out’ of their investments after a few years, not realising (or perhaps not caring) that space is a long game. These may be good strategies for finding lucrative high-tech start-ups on the ground, but they...
October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... can travel more than 800 km a day, so geolocating a naval air group in the middle of the ocean is a difficult game of hide and seek. Jianbing 8 can only detect ships if they emit electromagnetic energy (radar, communication). Jianbing...
