September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
... to be running a very outdated Windows XP system. Satellite safety Unlike traditional enterprise systems, satellites cannot be hosted ‘in the cloud’. They must be placed in specific orbits and have specific roles. An often-used analogy for servers...
October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
... will perform a multi-disciplinary investigation of the Jupiter system. The circulation, meteorology, chemistry and structure of the Jovian atmosphere will be studied from the cloud tops to the thermosphere. The focus in Jupiter’s magnetosphere will...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... images of Jupiter and its moons Europa and Io. The spacecraft also deployed the Galileo probe that entered Jupiter’s atmosphere for the first time giving us insight into the cloud composition and its evolution. Another example is NASA’s Mars...
January 2020
Discipline - a formula for success in the Earth observation market EO sector
... data from ground stations positioned across the globe to datacentres is best accomplished through the vast resources of major cloud providers. There is no need to reinvent the transport system when the cloud has already provided elastic resources...
June 2018
Striding through space
... rose. Television showed his free flying figure silhouetted against the clouds and blue ocean. He departed by the open payload bay doors on the trailing side of the Shuttle’s flight vector, which helped protect him from orbital debris. “Vance...
January 2021
Evolution of volatiles on the Moon
... instruments have determined that the permanently shadowed regions of the Moon are the coldest places ever measured in the solar system, but just how cold are the PSRs? They are colder than the cloud tops of the gas-giant planets, colder...
