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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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

My research team at University College London uses big data analysis and computer models to convert large and cumbersome satellite observations of atmospheric composition into...

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) offer a range of future of exciting opportunities, not just as a new form of transport modality but also a...

Forget the needle – finding a haystack in a satellite image is hard! Or even a whole farmstead, especially when it is a brown fence...

Lithium is now one of the most important metals in the world due to the growing demand for electric vehicles powered by lithium-ion batteries and...

Robust transportation infrastructures have always been critical to the movement of people, goods and services between national and international jurisdictions, yet, in an era of...