by Alessandro Prosperi | Aug 1, 2020 | All space related, Big Data, Space Money, Stuff in Orbit
(Image Credit: geospatialworld.net) “Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine”. — Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President, Gartner Research. Big Data from Space and the “overview effect” “I...
by Alessandro Prosperi | Jun 1, 2020 | All space related, Launch, Stuff in Orbit
A SpaceX Falcon 9, with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in the Dragon crew capsule, lifts off from Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., May 30, 2020. (Photo Credit: David J. Philip/AP) “You want to wake up in the morning and...
by Alessandro Prosperi | May 8, 2020 | All space related, Space Money, Stuff in Orbit
A monumental leap in solving Earth’s addiction to non-clean power sources Space-based solar power (SBSP) is the concept of collecting solar power in outer space and distributing it to Earth. A considerable fraction of...
by Alessandro Prosperi | Apr 30, 2020 | All space related, Beyond Earth Orbit
Mercury: a tough place to live… Mercury. The smallest planet in our solar system—only slightly larger than Earth’s Moon and the closest one to the Sun at a distance of about 36 million miles (58 million kilometers) or 0.39 AU. The...
