16 October 2019
Astroscale takes next step toward launch of world’s first commercial active debris removal mission
... operations technologies that have never before been tested in space. This is not only a step toward orbital sustainability but is also an exciting challenge for our team of talented engineers.” ELSA-d, the world’s first commercial orbital...
20 July 2020
Satellite technology supports project to replace soy in livestock feed
...has won a contract to use its Earth observation data expertise to support UK start-up DryGro, which is developing a sustainable animal feed alternative to soy. DryGro’s pioneering project which is under a programme of and funded by the European Space...
20 September 2021
New partnership to deliver high-value EO agriculture data
... is pioneering the use of thermal infrared imagery for high-precision agriculture, crop health monitoring and sustainable resource management. Using surface temperature as the key indicator, this data uses evapotranspiration as a fundamental measure...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... Clearly, the ability to reproduce is essential for the health and sustainability of any colony but it is an area of that still needs ... be necessary to supply the colony with adequate nutrition to sustain itself. And unlike air and water, which can be...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
...technology that will eventually make these missions affordable and sustainable. Unlike life in low Earth orbit (LEO) ... key area for the development of an affordable and sustainable space economy that would completely transform the current landscape of...
May 2018
Satellite data helps combat illegal shark fishing
... capture of the Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999, the UK-based OceanMind - a not-for-profit organisation working to increase the sustainability of fishing globally - investigated the vessel further and reviewed its movement in and around the Galapagos Islands...
