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Goldilock Stars: in a Universe full of life…
It is fair to believe that not having the proof that there are other forms of life elsewhere than our planet, is not a reason to neglect its existence. In fact, within the vastness of the Universe, it is its infinity and wonderfulness what makes, at least to me, obvious the fact that we are…
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GPS – behind the scenes
Suppose we’re on city looking for a particular place, we all almost instantaneously open Google Maps app, a blue point shows somewhere in the map indicating our location and we are then ready to continue our way to our destination. This article will try to explain, in simple words, what is the the process before…
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GPS + Cybersecurity
During decades when we have referred to cyber-attacks people automatically linked the concept to network disruptions and internet hackers, leading to dozens of action and sci-fi movies where a group of characters broke the internet security layers. Nowadays these network-related threats still exist, and more resilient methods have been developed to countermeasure them. However, new…
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Oceans cleaning and satellite missions
In previous blog post some Earth Observation satellite missions specialized in Ocean monitoring were briefly reviewed.This blog post presents some of the major problems that we have caused to Oceans (yes, let us be self-critical) and also how Earth Observation satellites are helping to cope with them. However, as was mentioned in the previous blog…
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Oceans: Earth Observation satellites
Multiple satellite missions are launched every year for all kind of industries (navigation, defense, exploration, among others), and an industry that is a must for keeping the Planet safe is Earth Observation (EO). Earth observation is a multimillion dollar industry. Recently (January 2024), the EUSPA (EU Agency for the Space Programme) released a market report…
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Nearest Exoplanet Found!
Proxima Centaui is known as the nearest star to our Sun, at a distance of (only) four light years away. Of course four light years is a lot, but considering the magnitudes of space distances we can consider it to be not that much. It comes up that a second exoplanet (planet outside our Solar…
