May 2018
Delivering farming solutions with satellite-powered data analytics
... hectare, compared to less than one percent in large holdings of 10 hectares or above. Some of the immediate challenges faced by marginal farmers in India are depleting groundwater resources, climate change bringing an increasing frequency of extreme...
July 2018
Using algae to support astronauts on deep space missions
... between the variation in oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in human activity. However, scalability of the photobioreactors proved to be a challenge as oxygen production was less dependent on the total volume and more dependent on the lighted and mass...
November 2018
Being human in space
... together in a restricted environment to simulate longer space travel or life on possible future off world colonies, repeating and challenging traits in human behaviour emerge, just as they would in regular Earth-bound society. No matter the initial...
March 2019
Laying the foundations for cosmic habitation
... In doing so, it has faced two primary challenges: first, creating a political structure that can operate...orbit, or on other moons and planets, we’ll have the additional challenge of having to deal with transmission times which amount to minutes, ...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
...supporting these programmes need a new approach to handle the challenge at a completely new scale. Multi-mission ground stations, ... had previously been generated in space. It may be challenging to grasp the full end-user benefits of marrying where...
January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
...world to own and market its own hardware on the International Space Station. In doing so it faced a number of philosophical challenges, in particular because the notion of a private company wanting to own research hardware, market the results and set...
