March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... satellites, underscoring the need for manufacturers and satcom developers to harden and protect their hardware and software. This is an exciting time for space exploration, as commercial companies are increasingly driving the evolution of satcom and...
June 2015
Watching over alpine explorers
... exchanged directly but always via the server in the regional centre, which contains communication software and a database. The communication software reacts to incoming messages from the mobile clients and stores the information in its database...
June 2021
Autonomous robots in space
...set-up phase, suitably experienced engineers will train the predictive ML software with as many fault sequence scenarios as possible. Then, a...As more actual faults are introduced, the ML software will become increasingly able to determine not just the...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... with image-quality metrics and the ability to acquire and deliver the required imagery in a timely manner. Software defined satellites (SDS) such as Lockheed Martin’s SmartSat are marketed as being ‘fully reconfigurable’. These satellites typically...
09 January 2019
New self-driving rovers being tested for Mars
...’ approach so that sensors can be installed and removed easily according to the mission requirements at hand. The new software systems were developed by companies and universities from around the UK including, Thales Alenia Space, Scisys, King...
March 2015
Ka-band satellite communication and lowering the price of VSATs
.... This could be achieved by moving from the sales model (selling the software as part of NMS to broadband internet service providers) to the ‘software as service’ model (charging based on traffic used by customers). The latter model combines the...
