May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... to Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center prior to its first test flight. Ordinary people are now seeing satellite data typically reserved for spy agencies and getting insights into the on-going crisis as they never have...
February 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... and improved China’s weather forecast capabilities over time. Second generation satellites became operational in 2008 (LEO FY 3) and 2016 (GEO FY 4). Fengyun satellite data products are available to users all over the world and can be downloaded...
March 2015
Shipping, the environment and satellite AIS
..., it can prove instrumental in helping to develop better planning, monitoring and navigation strategies for the future. Satellite AIS data lends itself to the creation of shipping density maps, an effective tool in the study of trends within the...
October 2017
Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?
... position, both technically and otherwise to drag Australia out of its dependenceoriented approach to satellite utilisation. For example, raw satellite data from the bush fire monitoring system on Sentinel had to be processed in the US, posing...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... Europeans and the UN who freely share their satellite data in support of humanitarian natural disasters like flooding,...The Disasters Charter is a worldwide collaboration through which satellite data are made available for the benefit of disaster ...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
..., terrestrial infrastructure properties and exposure, as depicted in Fig. 2. In this sense, the availability of various satellite data - whenever needed - is a key to success. Figure 1. Statistics of power outages in the US in the period 1984...
