July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
... in outer space and the whole world will benefit from it. US Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellite, courtesy AFSPC. About the author Gerard Brachet is a consultant on space policy issues and space applications, and...
May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
... Iranian President Ahmadinejad later stated that the launch had failed. In fact, Iran had already launched a satellite (Sina-1) using a Russian vehicle launched from Plesetsk on 27 October 2005. Much of Iran’s development of ballistic missiles and...
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...
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...
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...
