July 2021
Canadarm2 - 20 years of Canadian space robotics on the ISS
...: to confirm that a video feed routed from a camera on the Space Shuttle – docked to the ISS – would appear on a monitor on the new ISS robotics workstation. Vital to every robotics assembly mission to come, this simple step had...
January 2023
Clearing space junk from orbit
... of our planet become even more valuable. In the effort to fight global warming, satellites have become critical in monitoring human activities and developing the appropriate responses. While the use of Earth orbits provides numerous benefits...
January 2023
The effects of spaceflight on the female body
... spaceflight is associated with the restructuring of a whole range of processes in the body’s physiological systems which have been monitored and analysed for many years. However, specific changes in the female body under space conditions have...
October 2024
Virtualisation of the satellite sector
... we are already connected, this is about to become ‘hyperconnectivity’, in a world where 5G and the network of networks connect, monitor and optimise our business operations. Data and business intelligence platform, Statista, predicts that, by 2027...
November 2021
Space in support of sustainable development
... of climate change on the world’s ice has a direct connection to the measurement of sea levels, which are themselves monitored from space. There is a high degree of ignorance about the potential of space technology to contribute to achieving the SDGs...
November 2018
Purpose, promise and power – video from space
... a particular location – where, for example, a critical situation on the ground may require immediate information updates. VHR monitoring, with video capability, at multiple times of day, will create new exciting opportunities in the geo-located big...
