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Beyond Earth
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Space: The New Manufacturing Frontier

Published: December 9, 2020

As a naturally clean vacuum with extreme temperatures and an absence of night, space offers a unique environment for manufacturing, and utilising these conditions enables...

Space Applications
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UK-Australia Cybersecurity in Space

Published: December 9, 2020

From 30 November to 2 December, the Satellite Applications Catapult, in partnership with the British High Commission to Australia, hosted three workshops on Cyber Security...

Space Applications
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Reimagining Space: The Transformation of the Space Sector

Published: December 2, 2020

Over the next three months, in a new series of blogs, videos and articles, we will be discussing how the UK space sector has been...

Sustainable Earth
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Company Spotlight: Agrimetrics

Published: November 19, 2020

“The Satellite Applications Catapult bravely leaves the technical stuff at the door when approaching bringing new innovations to business, instead focusing on solving the real...

Beyond Earth
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UK Launch Vehicles Webinar: A Summary

Published: November 18, 2020

As a high growth and high productivity sector, space launch offers a unique opportunity for the UK economy and job market; with the market for...

Sustainable Earth
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Geospatial Intelligence in Agriculture

Published: November 16, 2020

Contributors: Electra Panagoulia, Sarah Cheesbrough, and Cristian Rossi. At the start of lockdown earlier this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, scenes of long queues...

Sustainable Earth
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Delivering Agricultural Innovation Worldwide

Published: November 9, 2020

There are huge opportunities and challenges facing the earth, from climate change and recovering from COVID to autonomy. Many of these are going to require...

Sustainable Earth
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Agriculture & Space: The UK Landscape & Beyond

Published: October 22, 2020

In January 2020, the Satellite Applications Catapult published a detailed document which included 195 companies from across various sectors: outlining their products, services, and capability....

Sustainable Earth
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5G Satcomms and Health

Published: September 15, 2020

The Catapult’s position to support the uptake of satellite-enabled technology and solutions has never limited us to only using data from satellites. We acknowledge that...

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RiR Week: Satellite Quantum Key Distribution

Published: September 7, 2020

Quantum computers threaten the security of the internet and secure communications. Current public key cryptography methods, such as RSA and ECC (see glossary below), could...

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