May 2019
Unlocking the full potential of Earth observation
...data, but they wouldn’t be able to offload it all in this narrow window. To make the most of Earth observation satellites, there needs to be a high-speed data connection in space. Flight Engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor installs the NanoRacks Cubesat...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... of entrepreneurs have seen a massive opportunity in space and are competing head on with the manufacturers of the large satellites In parallel, a number of self-made billionaires are using their own wealth to focus explicitly on the space launch...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... would wish to preserve as important parts of our space heritage in some kind of space museum? Save our satellites Scientific satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have contributed enormously to our understanding of the universe and are...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
.... The IAU statement identifies this threat to radio astronomy from aggregate radio signals emitted from the satellite constellations, stating that “recent advances in radio astronomy, such as producing the first image of a black hole or understanding...
January 2021
Safeguarding space - lessons from decommissioning in the energy industry
... dangers posed by the current preponderance of space debris have been well documented, while increasing the numbers of satellites serves only to increase the risk of a serious in-orbit collision. Current guidelines seek to prevent the creation of new...
March 2021
iPhone moment for the Earth observation industry
...majority of the applications mentioned above, the value is not in the consumption of EO data. It is in the information leveraged from satellites and combined with other sources of data in order to create a data-driven product of value to the end user...
