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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...

Catapult Co-Author: Cristian Rossi Abstract: Several hundred satellites are monitoring our planet every day, some of which are able to measure subtle ground movement. Satellites that...

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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 UK space sector will take its next significant step forward today with the opening of a new multi-million-pound Innovation Centre at Westcott in Buckinghamshire....

Satellite Applications Catapult is part of an international project called Earth Observation for Sustainable Aggregate Supply (EO4SAS), which is one of ten recently announced International...

Twenty-six innovators have been officially announced as the finalists in the Gravity Challenge 02, Australia’s premier space technology innovation program. The GRAVITY Challenge is an international technology...

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...