June 2018
Striding through space
..., who was photographed in orbit peering at Flight Plans through his spectacles. Recalling events in 2014, McCandless explained: “Mine were bi-focal but the higher power area ran vertically, not horizontally, with the ‘add’ segment...
September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
... with an opportunity through our network. Business operations that currently extend to geographically remote environments (such as mining and energy) are also starting to explore more extensive usage of satellite-based sensor networks to support...
December 2018
Prosperity in the stars
... that at this point we believe belong to the realm of fiction, whether scientific or not, such as manned flight to Mars, mining on asteroids and things of that kind.” While Asgardia-1 is the first step in orbit, most of the nation’s activities...
January 2019
Smallsat revolution and AI kick-start nascent EO big data market
..., Surveillance and Reconnaissance), biometrics, CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear) and explosive detection, and Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles (MRAPs). Prior to Seraphim she worked at the Benchmark Company, where she...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... in space and much more are possible. We can also do much more than what is now known as ‘space mining’. The future here may depend less on technology and more on the international legal status of the acquisition...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... of the appetite for risk. Confidence is growing but sometimes that confidence is misplaced, as with the case of space mining where a number of earlier invested companies have already failed. However, the venture community can take this...
