May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... the ground and track enemy missiles in flight. By late 2022, the agency wants to have several dozen satellites in orbit to demonstrate it can operate a proliferated constellation which can ‘talk’ to weapon systems. Space sustainability is one of the...
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...
March 2021
Eyes on the prize
...realise it, the UK is in the premier league of world space technology, from instrumentation, data science and satellite operations to satellite manufacture. Government decisions over the past two decades, combined with a strong engineering base, mean...
October 2024
EO data - the fuel that makes climate action possible
...seven percent are inspected for leaks. AI & multi-satellite imaging This data is also crucial for financial institutions...applying advanced algorithms to images from a wide range of satellite imagery for any given area of interest, the precise location...
25 May 2016
Successful liftoff for Soyuz
... system. When it is integrated into the COSPAS-SARSAT system, the Search and Rescue (SAR) Transponder on Galileo satellites will enable nearly real-time detection and localisation of distress signals from anywhere in the world, thus...
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...
