20 July 2020
Satellite technology supports project to replace soy in livestock feed
... incredibly fast, doubling in biomass every two days. The challenge for this pioneering project is to make it commercially viable compared with soy, which is one of the four largest crops in the world. However, soy relies on arable farming, requires...
09 July 2021
Skyrora launches challenge to de-orbit historic satellite
... from waste plastic, Ecosene could prevent more than 3,000 tons of unrecyclable plastic going to landfill by 2030. The challenge was issued during an exclusive Skyrora event organised as part of Space-Comm Expo at Farnborough, UK, this week attended...
July 2014
Beware the situation: how JSpOC tracks space debris
...and problem solving in addition to launch and postlaunch data exchanges. The challenges posed by the increasing amount of debris and smaller satellites are fostering innovation and the inclusion of new and non-traditional observational data providers...
November 2019
Strategic role of government in space commercialisation
... periodically on this metric. Ultimately, our report found that a strategic investment fund may not be the best approach to address the challenges facing the space sector. Government support for those companies whose products will take longer than...
March 2021
Eyes on the prize
... companies to sponsor other prizes. Given the scale of the challenge prizes proposed and the wider economic mission, it is unlikely they would deliver the ambitious advances we need without the lion’s share of funding coming from central...
October 2024
Simplicity is the space industry’s secret weapon
... development processes. Fixing tangible objects in space is barely possible, as of today, and the challenge is compounded by the fact that humans are involved. So these challenges aren’t just technical; they are cultural. Every success is built upon...
