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UK Small Satellites: High Flying

Published: December 11, 2018

This piece was written by Ewan Wright during his internship in our Access to Space team. It is well known that the UK punches above...

Satellite Applications Transforming COPD Prevention and Care

Published: November 27, 2018

Today is World COPD Day! This piece, written by our Health and Wellbeing expert, Adrian Smith, discusses the disease and how satellite applications are changing...

Copernicus Masters Finalist: TRACE – Tool for Recording and Assessing the City Environment

Published: November 27, 2018

Eloise Marais is an Associate Professor in Earth Observations at University of Leicester and is one of our three finalists in our Copernicus Masters Data...

Copernicus Masters Finalist: WindAI

Published: November 27, 2018

Daniel O’Connell and Jeremy Gondolf are the founders of WindAI, one of our three finalists in our Copernicus Masters Data Visualisation Challenge. WindAI is a...

Tailings Dams Monitoring using Satellite-Enabled Technologies

Published: October 29, 2018

Catapult Co-Authors: Maral Bayaraa, Stephen Spittle, Chris Williams, Vladimir Stoiljkovic Tailings dams risk reduction is one of the highest priorities within the mining industry and presents...

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Latin America Engagement Update

Published: August 3, 2018

One of the Satellite Application Catapult’s key roles is to open international opportunities for the UK satellite applications sector. With Chile and the surrounding regions playing...

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Small Satellite Market Intelligence

Published: August 1, 2018

Florian Deconinck, our Small Satellite Programme Manager, celebrates the 1-year anniversary of our quarterly report, and explains how you could feature in our next edition!...

Finding flatroofs with QGIS

Published: July 5, 2018

Emily Selwood is a Software Engineer at the Satellite Applications Catapult, following a Hackathon event in Bristol earlier this year Emily has developed a way...

Launching Air Quality Monitoring into the 21st Century

Published: May 25, 2018

We’re excited to announce that Eloise Marais, Research Scientist at the University of Birmingham, is working with the Satellite Applications and Future Cities Catapults as...

Small Satellites – How do we predict trends?

Published: May 18, 2018

Nick has been our Space Technology Business Analyst Intern for the past year and has been an excellent asset to the Small Satellites and Future...

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