According to experts at the Satellite 2021 conference, recruiting and keeping a diverse workforce takes time and effort, but it can help businesses prosper. Debra Facktor, who works as the head in charge of the Space Systems for the Airbus US Space and Defense Corporation, believes that diverse teams perform better. “It’s simply a fact. Their stock is worth
Scientists, nonprofit organizations, application developers, and disaster response organizations will benefit from the synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data collected by Capella Space’s satellite network, the company stated on September 14. Capella deployed its Open Data Program by offering 60 SAR scenes of locations on every continent, which are high-resolution, including energy and natural resources, agriculture and aquaculture, infrastructure, environmental, maritime, natural
Spire Global, a recently listed satellite constellation operator, is buying exactEarth, a Canadian ship-tracking company, in its first big acquisition, raising anticipation of greater space consolidation amid the wave of public corporations. Based in Vienna, Virginia, which has 110 Lemur satellites in the low Earth orbit and offers analysis and data-gathering services in marine and other industries,
According to connectivity experts participating at Satellite 2021 conference on September 8, more industry collaborations will be critical for decreasing costs and providing customers with a terrestrial-like encounter with satellite broadband. “Probably no one will be able to invest enough resources to have the optimal system,” said Steve Collar, CEO of satellite operator SES, who video
Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, two defense industry giants, have invested in Orbit Fab, which is a San Francisco-centered startup that aims to build gas stations in orbit to refuel satellites and extend their lives; the firms revealed. Orbit Fab wants to develop a fleet of tankers and fuel shuttles that can connect with aged satellites and
Although NASA’s chief scientist expressed hope for future exchange of Apollo-era lunar specimens with those retrieved by China’s Chang’e-5 mission, the agency presently has no intentions to do so. At the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group’s annual conference on August 31, Jim Green noted that limits in US legislation on bilateral collaboration between NASA and Chinese
The White House said that solar energy will provide nearly half of the country’s electricity by 2050. According to the ambitious plan, solar will rise from 3% of total generation in the year 2020 to 40% by 2035, and then to 45 percent by 2050, according to the ambitious plan. To reach that blueprint, a lot of
The modest room on the first floor of Kenyatta University’s Chandaria Incubation Centre is certainly too small for the enormous ideas it houses. Inside, Manilla papers with sophisticated computations and designs cover the room’s walls, showing trails of sorts. On the benches are various devices, models, and wires protruding from a device we later learn
Vehicles powered by electricity are becoming more prevalent. As per Jato Dynamics, a British consulting firm, around 750,000 of them were purchased in first quarter of the year 2021 alone. According to Jato, electric vehicles currently account for little more than 4 percent of new vehicle sales, up from 2 percent in the very same quarter
Shell has announced plans to deploy 50,000 electric vehicle charging stations that are on-street in the United Kingdom within the next 4 years, aiming to offer a third of network required to meet national climate change goals. Earlier this year, this energy firm purchased ubitricity, a prominent provider of on-street electric vehicle charging points for local
