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5G Options

Published: February 28, 2020

What exactly is a 5G connection? And are they all the same? Our Director of Ubiquitous Connectivity and 5G Step-Out Centre Manager, Kieran Arnold, explains…...

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sAFE Project

Published: February 26, 2020

Background Since June 2018 it has been mandatory in Europe for all new types of cars and light commercial vehicles to be fitted with eCall...

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Space-Enabled Agriculture

Published: February 18, 2020

In November 2019 the Satellite Applications Catapult hosted a ‘Space-enabled Agriculture’ event, on behalf of the Digital Agri-Food Special Interest Group. The objective of the...

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Space-Enabled Applications for the Mining Sector Workshop – Results

Published: February 6, 2020

On 28 November, the Satellite Applications Catapult, European Space Agency, and United Nations Crime Institute (UNICRI) hosted a workshop to discover how space-enabled applications could...

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GRID-Arendal Workshop

Published: December 23, 2019

On 16 December members of our Extractive Industries team visited Norway to attend a workshop at the GRID-Arendal office. We were there to continue our...

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Insights Magazine: I Want a Mentor… But You Probably Need a Coach

Published: December 13, 2019

Kathryn Jeacock is Head of HR here at the Satellite Applications Catapult. Kathryn is passionate about embedding a coaching mindset into the culture of the...

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Project Hephaestus

Published: December 5, 2019

Building on the success of the Chilean Mining Project, Satellite Applications Catapult continued with the optimisation of the Hephaestus application. This application is a software...

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Space-Enabled Applications for the Mining Sector Workshop

Published: December 4, 2019

On 28 November, the Satellite Applications Catapult, European Space Agency, and United Nations Crime Institute (UNICRI) hosted a workshop to discover how space-enabled applications could...

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Humans on the Moon: extracting reality from the hype of recent announcements by NASA, SpaceX, China and Russia

Published: October 15, 2019

This piece was written by Pat Norris. Pat worked as a NASA contractor on the Apollo programme in Houston from 1967 to 1970 then returned...

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The People Experience – Action Learning at the Catapult

Published: September 27, 2019

Kathryn Jeacock was the previous Head of HR here at the Satellite Applications Catapult. In September 2019 she, along with the Action learning team at...

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