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The People Experience – Action Learning at the Catapult

Published: September 27, 2019

Kathryn Jeacock was the previous Head of HR here at the Satellite Applications Catapult. In September 2019 she, along with the Action learning team at...

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Satellite Applications Catapult to invest in Earth Observation expertise in the East Midlands

Published: September 25, 2019

The Satellite Applications Catapult today announces it will grow its presence in the East Midlands, supporting the Manufacturing, Engineering, Technology and Earth Observation Centre (METEOR)...

Open Cosmos announces development of ‘MANTIS’ Earth Observation satellite

Published: September 11, 2019

At the occasion of the Earth Observation Phi-Week at the European Space Agency (ESA) centre in Frascati this week, a unique consortium of specialised space...

Horizon Technologies and the Satellite Applications Catapult to supply satellite data to the UK National Maritime Information Centre

Published: September 10, 2019

Horizon Technologies and the Satellite Applications Catapult have signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Maritime Information Centre (NMIC) to supply satellite data from...

First data collected by Satellite Applications Catapult’s first In-Orbit Demonstration programme satellite

Published: August 28, 2019

Following successful deployment from the International Space Station on 3rd July 2019 at 11.15am (BST), satellite for IOD-1 GEMS have successfully tasked the satellite to...

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Understanding and Monitoring Natural Capital and the Opportunity for Geospatial Solutions

Published: August 15, 2019

Even if they don’t realise it, most businesses derive benefit from the natural world and are exposed to risk where these are degraded. Where investment...

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A Problem Shared is a Problem Halved?

Published: August 4, 2019

Maral Bayaraa, Earth Observation Specialist at the Satellite Applications Catapult, travels down under to find out what a volcanologist, medic, geophysicist, geologist, forensic scientist and...

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Innovative UK space technology protects Malaysian coastline from oil slick

Published: August 1, 2019

The Satellite Applications Catapult, leading a consortium of innovative UK companies, has successfully created a system that can automatically detect oil slicks from space and...

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Satellite Applications Catapult to grow presence in Wales

Published: July 18, 2019

The Satellite Applications Catapult is today announcing that it will open a new regional office at the Snowdonia Aerospace Centre in Llanbedr, Gwynedd. The office,...

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The UK Government’s Green Finance Strategy and the Opportunity for Geospatial Solutions

Published: July 16, 2019

Aligning private sector financial flows with clean, environmentally sustainable and resilient growth and strengthening the competitiveness of the UK financial sector. These are the ambitious...

Apollo 11: The Launch – 50 years on

Published: July 16, 2019

“We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth” – William A. Anders, Lunar...

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SeDAS API – Python Client

Published: July 4, 2019

Did you know the SeDAS system has an API to allow programs to search and download data from it? It hasn’t had a lot of...

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