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Billion Pound Support Package for Innovative Firms Hit by Coronavirus

Chancellor announces new £1.25bn coronavirus package to protect firms driving innovation in UK Package includes a £500 million investment fund for high-growth companies impacted by...

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Delivering Change for Cacao in Colombia

For the last 18 months, the Satellite Applications Catapult has been working with the Manufacturing Technology Centre (part of the High-Value Manufacturing Catapult) to transform...

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Satellite Applications Catapult Spin-Out Acquired by Hanley Wood | Meyers Research

The Satellite Applications Catapult is pleased to announce that Bird.i, a leading satellite imagery and Artificial Intelligence (AI) company, and one of the first spin-outs...

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Combined InSAR and Terrestrial Structural Monitoring of Bridges

Catapult Co-Author: Cristian Rossi Abstract: This article examines advances in interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) satellite measurement technologies to understand their relevance, utilization, and limitations...

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Satellite Applications Catapult to Develop UK’s First Private Standalone 5G Network

The Satellite Applications Catapult will be delivering a ground-breaking communications network across central Milton Keynes as part of the new MK:5G Connected Communities project. The...

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Advanced Remote GP Appointments using Satellite Connectivity

Our Business Manager for Health and Wellbeing, John Vesey, explains how an idea developed by two GPs is transforming the way practices are delivering health...

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LoGSRN: Deep Super Resolution Network for Digital Elevation Model

Catapult co-author: Stephen Spittle Abstract: The spatial resolution of a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) plays a crucial role in many practical remote sensing applications. However,...

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5G Options

What exactly is a 5G connection? And are they all the same? Our Director of Ubiquitous Connectivity and 5G Step-Out Centre Manager, Kieran Arnold, explains…...

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sAFE Project

Background Since June 2018 it has been mandatory in Europe for all new types of cars and light commercial vehicles to be fitted with eCall...

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Connecting Rural Locations with 5G

The Satellite Applications Catapult has been awarded £850,000 to deliver 5G and satellite data expertise across all areas of a new 5G connectivity project in...

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Space-Enabled Agriculture

In November 2019 the Satellite Applications Catapult hosted a ‘Space-enabled Agriculture’ event, on behalf of the Digital Agri-Food Special Interest Group. The objective of the...

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Investor Action on Tailings Dam Safety, One Year After the Brumadinho Disaster

The Mining and Tailings Safety Initiative, a group that has over US $14 trillion in assets under management and is co-led by the Church of...

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