October 2020
Essential role of satellites in disaster and pandemic management
... such as remote sensing to access high-resolution satellite imagery. That was critical in enabling stakeholders’ use of satellite technologies for more effective mapping, to overcome the outdated colonial maps, during the Ebola outbreak. For example...
March 2021
Eyes on the prize
... Though many people outside the industry may not 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...
April 2021
Norway’s pioneering use of microsatellites
... laser communication payload developed by the Dutch research institute (TNO) and the Delft based company Hyperion Technologies, a next generation miniaturised AIS receiver with a CubeSat form factor from Kongsberg Seatex, an improved VDES system...
October 2024
EO data - the fuel that makes climate action possible
... atmosphere, we can slow global warming, accelerate our path to net-zero and harness crucial financial and technological opportunities across industries. It’s that simple: data is the fuel that makes climate action possible. Detecting methane...
October 2025
Pioneering affordable and flexible access to near space
... the space value chain. B2Space’s initial focus was the development of a small satellite launcher using balloon technology. This work laid the technical foundations in high-altitude balloon systems, atmospheric modelling and payload integration...
November 2025
Searching for life beyond Earth
... she shares her insights on the latest discoveries, future technologies, and what it might mean to finally answer the ...a variety of compounds. What’s exciting is that this kind of technology could be adapted not just for Venus, but for many other ...
