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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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Understanding and Monitoring Natural Capital and the Opportunity for Geospatial Solutions

Published: August 15, 2019

Even if they don’t realise it, most businesses derive benefit from the natural world and are exposed to risk where these are degraded. Where investment...

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A Problem Shared is a Problem Halved?

Published: August 4, 2019

Maral Bayaraa, Earth Observation Specialist at the Satellite Applications Catapult, travels down under to find out what a volcanologist, medic, geophysicist, geologist, forensic scientist and...

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The UK Government’s Green Finance Strategy and the Opportunity for Geospatial Solutions

Published: July 16, 2019

Aligning private sector financial flows with clean, environmentally sustainable and resilient growth and strengthening the competitiveness of the UK financial sector. These are the ambitious...

Apollo 11: The Launch – 50 years on

Published: July 16, 2019

“We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth” – William A. Anders, Lunar...

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SeDAS API – Python Client

Published: July 4, 2019

Did you know the SeDAS system has an API to allow programs to search and download data from it? It hasn’t had a lot of...

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Regional Support Partnership for Satellite Applications is extended in the South-Coast and South-West regions

Published: May 29, 2019

The Satellite Applications Catapult, in collaboration with the UK Space Agency (UKSA) have extended their partnerships with organisations in the South-West and South-Coast regions, through...

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Sustainable Finance Reporting Frameworks and the Opportunity for Geospatial Solutions

Published: May 21, 2019

The sustainable finance ecosystem is as vast and as complex as the overall finance sector that it is a part of. One way for data...

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