April 2021
Norway’s pioneering use of microsatellites
... officially allocated under the World Radio Conference (WRC) in 2019. The mission demonstrates the feasibility of a VHF data exchange protocol via satellite to ships, which could eventually lead to a new way of transmitting high priority information...
04 November 2022
NASA’s climate change mineral dust detector
... the chemical composition of atmospheric mineral dust, is powered by hardware from high-performance electronics company Alpha Data. Data gathered by the NASA instrument - called the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) - as the...
March 2015
Shipping, the environment and satellite AIS
... Mexico in 2006 highlight the critical need to protect the ocean environment. AIS for the environment S-AIS data provides accurate information on ship behaviour and position such that determining, or definitively concluding offences such as pollution...
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
... solutions. Further, USSTRATCOM has established SSA Data Sharing agreements with dozens of entities worldwide ...of USSTRATCOM. Academics are in a natural position to exchange data and technical ideas with colleagues in nation states that are difficult...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... of resident space objects to enhance the accuracy and precision of our knowledge of these objects. Then, this orbital data should be shared as widely as possible among actors in the space arena, while incorporating operator knowledge (e.g. past and...
October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
...a large part by the Dutch government (UV-Vis-NIR module development, instrument development management, calibration and ground data processing), and executed by a consortium led by Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands (formerly Dutch Space), with the...
