UAE Turns to Satellites to Shield Region’s Only Nuclear Plant From Climate Risks February 7, 2025 By Verity Ratcliffe The United Arab Emirates, which operates the Gulf’s only commercial nuclear power station, is for the first time taking special...
The War on Wildfires Is Going High-Tech December 27, 2024 By William Ralston Last December, a farmer was burning dry grapevines in his vineyard in Deir Mar Moussa, a hill town a dozen...
Catastrophe Monitoring Firm ICEYE Completes $93 Million Funding Round April 24, 2024 ICEYE, the microsatellite manufacturer and catastrophe monitoring company, announced definitive agreement signed for an oversubscribed $93 million growth funding round....
Startup AiDash Raises $50M for Tech Using AI, Satellites to Spot Wildfire Risk January 26, 2024 By Peter Henderson A California startup using artificial intelligence (AI) and satellites to spot fire and weather risks on power lines, AiDash, reported...
Piercing Through Rain, Smoke and Fog: How Radar Satellites See Catastrophes November 14, 2023 By Stephen Lathrope and Andy Read Executive Summary: The potential for satellite technology to revolutionize claims management has long been recognized but has only recently been...
SpaceX Satellites Falling Out of Orbit After Being Hit by Solar Storm February 11, 2022 By Marcia Dunn SpaceX’s newest fleet of satellites is tumbling out of orbit after being struck by a solar storm. Up to 40...
Found in Space: How Skytek Tracks Supply Chain Risks—and More December 29, 2021 By L.S. Howard Oil spills, port explosions, blockages in the Suez Canal and supply chain risks. These are just some of the events...
Space-Faring Nations Need Regulations to Prevent Satellite Collisions: Opinion September 9, 2019 By Adam Minter, Bloomberg Opinion Last week, the European Space Agency reached out to to warn Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. that one of...
Space Junk: Emerging Global Risk Threatens Satellite Communications – Opinion September 21, 2018 By Mark Buchanan, Bloomberg View Last Saturday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2, which will monitor Earth’s...
Hackers Find New Battleground in Space, Targeting Satellites in ‘Trophy Attacks’ October 27, 2015 By Ari Rabinovitch Space, the ‘final frontier’, is rapidly becoming an extra-terrestrial battleground for corporate espionage and other types of cyber attack as...