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Leveraging global space-powered weather data to scale voluntary carbon markets

As climate change causes an increase in the intensity and frequency of storms, wildfires, droughts and other extreme weather events, the permanence of nature-based mitigation projects is increasingly threatened.

Port Events: Smart AIS Data for port and vessel optimization

As the maritime industry continues to embrace digitization, the power and payoffs of leveraging data are being realized in increasingly impactful ways, from port operations, insurance underwriting, and supply chain monitoring to reducing carbon emissions.

The secret is out: dark vessels harm the environment

There are vast, well-known sources of carbon emissions that threaten the global environment—vehicle emissions, electrical power generation, agriculture, etc.

Space-as-a-Service (SPaaS) - the next generation of space-based business

For decades, space was out of reach to almost everyone except governments and large companies. Traditionally, any space project would require an upfront CapEx investment of hundreds of millions of dollars and average lead times of seven to ten years before getting into space.

Employee Spotlight: Chuck Cash, VP Federal Sales

COP 27: Turning the tide on climate change drives business value

Here’s a question: is what’s good for the planet also good business?

COP 27: 4 ways AIS and weather data can be used to reduce maritime carbon emissions

More decisive actions and commitments are expected at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations (COP27): 2022 is the ‘Super Year of the Ocean’ and the UN-Ocean Conference reached a collective agreement earlier this year among governments to implement “science-based, innovative” solutions to curb ocean warming.

Employee Spotlight: Yukhee Lee, APAC Business Development Manager, Space Services

Grain laundering: seeing who’s hiding in the dark shipping

You may have heard of money laundering, but what about “grain laundering”?

Maritime Innovator: Meerkat.ai

Who says business and family don’t mix? For Meerkat.ai, it’s a strength!

SAR + AI/ML for dark vessel detection: the xView3 challenge

When one thinks of “dark vessels”, typically the term is associated with illegal fishing and decimating the marine food chain.

Employee Spotlight: Peter Johnston, Spacecraft Electronics Design Engineer

ShipView: An environmental protection tool to fight oil pollution

Oil pollution wreaking devastation in the world’s oceans has a long, unfortunate history.