Month: September 2013
The Earth Observation Business
Some other interesting facts from Euroconsult..
– the number of Earth observation (EO) satellites launched by civil government and commercial entities is expected to more than double over the next decade to 360 satellites !
– within 10 years 42 countries will have launched at least a first-generation earth observation satellite
– Earth Observation satellites are getting cheaper, during the next decade 69% of EO satellites will cost less that $100 million (compared to 56% in the last decade)
There is a real sense that the market is changing with new players like skybox representing a new direction..
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Finally the end of IRIS
For the regular traveller who had perfected the IRIS dance of "Move back a little", "Move forward a little" the automated immigration line straight out of Minority Report often saved a few minutes at the end of a long journey.
But I fully accept that it never really worked very well and a couple of times was ejected from the machine to go and show my valid passport to a nearby human, oh the humiliation !
From now on it will have to be the increasing long line in front of a human UK Border Agency official or the less sci-fi influenced e-passport gates which seem neither faster or more reliable than IRIS..