April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... used to create a detailed map of space infrastructure to provide a clear picture of the current state of the orbital environment. Monitoring solar activity and other space weather phenomena also fall under SSA services, helping to protect spacecraft...
July 2014
Understanding Earth: GEO and the SDG environmental agenda
... Goals (SDG) Agenda. The Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and landscapes are being increasingly impacted by human activities. Monitoring and modeling these changes is critical for enabling governments and society to make informed decisions about water...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
... the nuclear and ballistic missile activities of the closed society of North Korea. Similarly, environmental monitoring satellites allow users to monitor the impact of climate change in generally inhospitable regions such as the Arctic and Antarctic...
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... Lab or PLD Space. Astroscale, a company based in Singapore but run by a Japanese entrepreneur, is planning to develop debris-monitoring satellites and services to remove end-of-life satellites from orbit, and ALE, an entertainment company, plans...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
...continued to be granted site access so that, for example, spacecraft in operation around the solar system could continue to be monitored and controlled. Meanwhile, the International Space Station (ISS) in low Earth orbit remained coronavirus-free and...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
... the disaster - local, regional or global - different observation tools are applied. Global and regional events can be monitored using low or medium resolution satellites such as the GOES geostationary Earth observation satellites and polar-orbiting...
