03 May 2019
Debris from India's ASAT test worse than predicted
...’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO). This distance is below that used by many of the hundreds of working satellites in space in a low Earth orbit (LEO), a region that corresponds to a range of altitudes anywhere from 400 and 1200...
18 June 2019
Israeli space tech firm hiSky expands to the UK
... is targeted to support the development of hiSky’s satellite receiving terminals, operations and management software for the...our privilege to establish the first real low-cost global Virtual Satellite Network and to do it in the UK. hiSky’s cutting ...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... countries that have participated in the construction of the satellite. This means that there is a growing unmet global... space observatories (Kepler-2, GAIA, Cheops and TESS). The Twinkle satellite will be built in the UK and launched into a low-Earth...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
...its offer of assistance, or remove itself from any such voluntary organisation, even though it is not as easy as it sounds. Satellite image of refugee camp at the Syrian-Jordanian border taken by UrtheCast’s Deimos-2. Protected data The real question...
April 2021
Predicting dengue fever outbreaks from space
... of the spatial variation of meteorological parameters, which may vary significantly at the local scale. Many high-quality satellite EO data products are available for free and systematic collection, which also enables scalability of the solution...
April 2024
The promise of solar energy for sustainable development and space exploration
... associated with disasters are lack of energy, communications and night-time illumination so, once again, solar power satellites could potentially provide affordable power to enable these crucial relief elements. SBSP thus represents a clean energy...
