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Satellite Applications Catapult Annual Report 2019-2020

Published: October 22, 2020

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Resilient Earth
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Agriculture & Space: The UK Landscape & Beyond

Published: October 22, 2020

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
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New Innovation Centre Opens at Westcott

Published: October 19, 2020

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

Published: October 6, 2020

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

Published: October 6, 2020

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

Published: September 15, 2020

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

Published: September 7, 2020

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

Published: September 7, 2020

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

Published: September 7, 2020

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

Published: September 7, 2020

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

Published: September 3, 2020

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

Published: August 19, 2020

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...

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