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...
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...
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...
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...
