October 2024
Virtualisation of the satellite sector
... we are already connected, this is about to become ‘hyperconnectivity’, in a world where 5G and the network of networks connect, monitor and optimise our business operations. Data and business intelligence platform, Statista, predicts that, by 2027...
November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
... of space exploration itself. With tens of thousands of objects already tracked and countless smaller fragments beyond our monitoring capabilities, the risk of cascading collisions is becoming more than theoretical. Here, Kelvin Long proposes that...
November 2021
Space in support of sustainable development
... of climate change on the world’s ice has a direct connection to the measurement of sea levels, which are themselves monitored from space. There is a high degree of ignorance about the potential of space technology to contribute to achieving the SDGs...
November 2018
Purpose, promise and power – video from space
... a particular location – where, for example, a critical situation on the ground may require immediate information updates. VHR monitoring, with video capability, at multiple times of day, will create new exciting opportunities in the geo-located big...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
...? Knowing the impacts of the 4 August 1972 event, it is important to have a collective, worldwide effort in a number of areas: better monitoring of space weather at the Sun and near Earth advancing models that support exploration of the full range...
January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
... in a vulnerable world Understanding more about magma pathways in the past helps address a problem facing modern volcanology. Monitoring networks installed on the ground around active volcanoes, and satellites that watch from space, detect a range...
