November 2018
Purpose, promise and power – video from space
...world, benefitting customers in high-value and high-risk environments. The potential of night-time observations will also complement...what big companies are doing in their urban and rural environments. The powerful will be held accountable based on the...
January 2023
Producing food in space
... on exploited animals, fertilisers dependent on fossil fuels and farmland that could be reforested. Planning for the hostile environment of space does away with all of that immediately and allows us to design more resilient food systems for...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... ESA being the coordinator of the space component. Copernicus is Europe’s answer to global needs, allowing us to manage the environment, to mitigate the effects of climate change and to ensure civil security. The Sentinel missions, the first of which...
March 2016
Resource Prospector – a Lunar Pathfinder
... commercial and industrial world would ideally be ruggedised to improve their chances of survival in the launch and space environments, confirmed by vacuum, temperature and vibration testing, etc. This approach was applied across the entire suite...
May 2017
Growing plants without gravity
...to process and send to Earth collected data on the plants’ environment and the conditions of the greenhouse modules. In 1990, the first...regulate the water and air settings of the root environment were needed. The thermo-impulse method of monitoring ...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
...been used to help create a multilateral and cooperative security environment in outer space. While the exact content of the obligations...the space age, space politics & policy, space & the environment, and remote sensing law & regulation. He has been a...
