Beyond Earth
UK Launch Vehicles Webinar: A Summary
As a high growth and high productivity sector, space launch offers a unique opportunity for the UK economy and job market; with the market for...
News and Comment
Sustainable Earth
Geospatial Intelligence in Agriculture
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...
Sustainable Earth
Sat4Wildlife project supported in £3.4million UK Space Agency funding announcement
On World Humanitarian Day, the UK Space Agency announced £3.4 million funding from their International Partnership Programme for ten pioneering UK space projects that will tackle...
Sustainable Earth
Delivering Agricultural Innovation Worldwide
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...
Sustainable Earth
Early warning system for the detection of unexpected bridge displacements from radar satellite data
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...
Space Applications
Satellite Applications Catapult Annual Report 2019-2020
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Sustainable Earth
Agriculture & Space: The UK Landscape & Beyond
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....
Westcott Space Cluster
New Innovation Centre Opens at Westcott
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....
Sustainable Earth
Joint UK-Kenyan project to support the sustainable supply of sand and aggregates within Kenya using Earth observation data
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...
Space Applications
Gravity Challenge 02 finalists announced
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...
Sustainable Earth
5G Satcomms and Health
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...
RiR Week: Satellite Quantum Key Distribution
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...