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Westcott Space Cluster
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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....

Resilient Earth
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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
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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...

Autonomous & Connected Earth
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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...

Beyond Earth
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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...

Resilient Earth
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RiR Week: Monitoring Air Quality on Earth with Instruments in Space

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...

Autonomous & Connected Earth
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RiR Week: Supporting CAV Development with Data

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...

Resilient Earth
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RiR Week: Mapping Terrestrial Objects in Satellite Imagery with Machine Learning

Forget the needle – finding a haystack in a satellite image is hard! Or even a whole farmstead, especially when it is a brown fence...

Beyond Earth
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Satellite Applications Catapult’s Second In-Orbit Demonstration Mission Launches

At 02:51 BST this morning the second satellite from the Satellite Applications Catapult’s In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD) Programme was successfully launched on board the Arianespace Vega...

Resilient Earth
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New UK space projects to boost global sustainable development receive £3.4 million cash boost

Government backs new pioneering space projects that will apply UK expertise to tackling development problems across the globe. UK academics will work on space solutions...

Resilient Earth
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Project to deliver change for cacao in Colombia to be extended by 12 months

The COLCO project, which aims to improve productivity for the cacao supply chain in Colombia, has been awarded an additional 12 months of funding by...

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El proyecto para lograr un cambio en el negocio de cacao en Colombia se extiende por 12 meses

Innovate UK, mediante el Fondo Newton-Caldas, extenderá por otros 12 meses el financiamiento otorgado al proyecto COLCO, que tiene por objeto mejorar la productividad de...

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