Satellites, bananas, and ethics: Partnerships to tackle food insecurity

It's not every day I attend a workshop where satellites, bananas, livestock, and ethics are central to the conversation.
It's not every day I attend a workshop where satellites, bananas, livestock, and ethics are central to the conversation.
At Canada House in London last week, UK and Canadian space delegations came together to celebrate the collaboration between our two space sectors.
Monitoring cocoa plants in Ghana from space Globally, the majority of tropical deforestation is still linked to commodity farming and production. The expanded production of agricultural commodities such as beef, soy, cocoa, palm oil and paper/pulp are the major drivers …
The arrangement secures the Icelandic Government’s support for UK launch activities.
Today, the UK Space Agency signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), taking a new step in space cooperation between the UK and Japan. Dr Graham Turnock (CEO of the UK Space Agency) and President …
Today marks 20 years of unbroken human presence on the International Space Station. Our head of Human Exploration, Libby Jackson, reflects on the incredible milestone.
The International Charter: Space and Major Disasters, better known as the Disaster Charter, was formed on 20 October 2000 by the European Space Agency (ESA), French Space Agency (CNES) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), with the UK joining in …
How one of our projects uses satellites to help solve disputes over water in northern Peru.
This week we're celebrating all things space!
In the early 80’s, in what seems a lifetime ago but is only half a lifetime, I returned to Imperial College from a spell in the USA.