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Hi everyone. Welcome. There is some spaces here and also in the middle. Hopefully we can feed. Otherwise there is tons of space here by the sides. Alright, so I just have 20 minutes and 5 for questions. I will try my best because I think I have more slides than the ones I can present because it's a major topic. There is so many things happening. I am very passionate about
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this industry, so I will try to share that passion in 20 minutes. Alright, so let's start. So as Jacob said, I am Miriam Gonzalez. I am co-founder of Yuchicas. Who attended Yuchicas Stakes? Nice, nice. And the rest,
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next year or whatever year you should go to the next event. So let's start with this one. So I think this is a beautiful example of one of the first pictures that was taken from Apollo 8, if I remember correctly. And the name is Earthrise. So there were some pictures before of these ones. We cannot
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say at that time Earth observation yet because it was kind of the early stages of the space industry. I mean seeing this is when everybody saw how fragile and beautiful is Earth. This was taken from the moon mission in 68. But actually the first satellite that was launched in space was in 57. And it was from
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at that time the Soviet Union. So it was Sputnik. I'm not sure if I can share a bit of the sound. Maybe it's right. And it wasn't security. No, no. Anyway, I can share the slides and you can hear the sound later. So this was actually the first satellite artificial around orbiting Earth. And
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this one was one of the major facts that pushed what we call the space race. Because one year after that the president Eisenhower in the USA decided to create NASA because they knew how important it was to be also present in space. So anyway let's focus right now a bit of Earth observation numbers.
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So at this moment there are around 10,000 satellites orbiting Earth. From those almost 10,000 around 1,000 are for Earth observation. And then it's kind of like the second layer of number of satellites. First is communication. Second is Earth observation. And there are of course some other ones.
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Last year in 2023 there were 223 launches. And can you imagine that a few years before I mean it was almost like half of this number. So it's crazy how this keeps growing. How this keeps being a big topic right now. And around 70 plus countries are right now involved in Earth observation satellites at this
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moment. So what you hear a lot about the space industry and also you hear a lot about new space industry. What's the difference? I mean you can check in different sources. The definition from my point of view is mostly about these points is the size of satellite has been reduced so much to even have the size of
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a loaf of bread as the planet satellites. It keeps us pretty small. The space start-ups are coming more and more in the game, in the economies. The cost also for launching has been going lower and lower. And as you may know it's a per kilo price. So because everything
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is coming so small now the price is so much lower. It's also something very important is I do partnerships in space tech. So I have so many conversations in the last years with the space tech companies. So you see also a lot of these public and private partnerships. And of course companies doing all this disruption. Of course I mean
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we see what's happening with the SpaceX. I mean right now they are the ones launching most of the space rights into space and so many other things. So I show here some other numbers regarding space start-ups and also the collection of imagery. And if you want to see the full report I also share here the
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link because there is so many interesting data about what is happening also with new space. So we can say that new space is what's happening today with all these costs and private investment and also more and more commercial use cases happening in the industry versus the previous kind of like normal space industry let's
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say it that way. It was more focused in defense. It was more focused in government. It was more focused in large corporations. And right now even the small companies are participating. So in some other studies you see that space technologies and also the space industry has a forecast for 2035 of being
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1.8 trillion opportunity in the global economic because of many reasons. Because of the use cases. Because of the climate change. Also investment because of the carbon projects. Because of the launches. Because of the hardware. Because of the software. Because of so many things. And also invite you to check this report that you can find
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also online. So now let's go back a bit about what is happening today in the industry. And this talk I decided to make this talk because back in Kosovo last year I saw how I mean we are an open source and open data communities right here and then we are more used to
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hear about the Copernicus program about Landsat. But also there is so much happening in the commercial part. And also working together with ESA and other organizations. So I thought it was important for people to have visibility about the new players in this industry. If I'm speaking too fast let me know because I'm thinking about my 20 minutes right here.
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Sorry for that. Okay so anyway if you might know I mean there is mainly like optical and SAR for the ones who don't know optical is more about a passive sensor and SAR is an active sensor. What that means for optical we need the light of the sun to be able to reflect the energies. In the case
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of SAR it's an active sensor that is sending this scatter and then it's getting a signal back. And that's how also I mean this I mean in summary for bridging my 20 minutes of presentation. And so what is happening right now in the commercial sector? So we have all these
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companies right now doing really cool things. So let me share with you a few of the sensors they are having. So in kind of overall multispectral we have Black Sky from the USA, Axial Space from Japan, TurkSat from Turkey. We have 2180 from China.
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Imasat International they are from Israel. YoSat from Spain. S-I-I-S from Korea. The Logic Uruguay Netherlands USA kind of thing. Open Cosmos from the UK and Planet USA a bit Germany.
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And all these companies they are having right now resolutions coming from 30 centimeters. So they have 30, they have 50, they have 70, they have 90 and all of them right now I mean are kind of really active and they have different projects. Also Satellogic has a different right now a new project in the one they are releasing
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also open data. So let's go for that a bit further. The next ones I want to show you is something that I found very interesting because I will say in the past you hear a lot about the importance of hyperspectral and until the last couple of years you are hearing more about all these commercial
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players launching and being pretty active. So let me share with you these four names that I think they are pretty interesting. Wyburn is a company from Canada and they have 5 meter multispectral. They have what is called the DragonEts that's the name of their satellites. And they are doing something very unique because they really want to have
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accessible pricing for hyperspectral and how they are doing this is that they consider themselves a satellite company but what they are doing is they are having companies like Love Orbital and also like ACC Clyde Space for actually a kind of like bringing the payload in a satellite that somebody else has built and put it
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the images go really low. Another company which I found very interesting is Pixell. They have this 5 meter resolution too and this is a company from India and USA and what they are doing is they are also
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launching they are already launching I believe and they say that they will be able to reach more than 200 bands. So that's also something I mean right now they haven't achieved that goal yet. That's something that will be coming. Albedo from the US they will be having these images with 10 centimeter resolution.
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The thing about Albedo is that they have this agreement in the one they have exclusivity with just one platform and then after that they will be having deals with more companies. And Cuba Space another company which is doing more about the satellite together with analytics and they want to focus in agriculture.
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So I see that time goes really fast so let me go to the next one. Another topic very important is thermal. We see what is happening with climate change. We see what is happening right now with different countries in the world. So we have these three companies. OraTech from Germany, Satbo from the UK and also Constel
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are. OraTech they just signed this agreement with the government of Greece to be able to provide all this information about what is happening in Greece and be ahead of the curve for any wildfire that may be presented and we know how they have been suffering over the last couple of years with this. Satbo they are
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doing more about hit islands. They launched a satellite last year and then in December we received the news that there was no further communication with the satellites so that was pretty sad because they were doing amazing things. So next year they will be launching the satellite, the new one and that will be I think mid-2025. And Constel
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are they are doing things with mostly agriculture. Another very interesting players are the methane satellites. One of them is GAGSat a company from Canada and also methaneSat. So they are already detecting all these leaks all around the globe and some of the
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models they are following is kind of like subscriptions in the one they are monitoring for 10, 100 sites around the globe to be able to see what is happening. MethaneSat is a new company. They just launched a few months ago and they are calibrating right now. They are from the US and they have all this funding and at the beginning what
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they wanted to do was having open data. So the last time I spoke with them they were trying to see how much open data they will be having and maybe they will have some other business models. So I'm curious about what they will be developing. SAR. We have so many SAR providers right now in commercial
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markets. So I found so interesting these opportunities right here. We know SAR can go through clouds, doesn't matter the weather, it can go through the night, it can detect so many things. The funny thing is that, well not so funny, I was in the SAR symposium two years ago in Berlin and one
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professor and researcher he has been I think 20 years doing SAR research and when he joined the podium he said, I have been doing SAR for 20 years and I still don't know what I'm seeing. So that means how complicated can be SAR and all these companies they are trying their best to also be vocal about the use of SAR, the use cases and everything but we still have a long
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way to go to understand SAR much better. These companies, some of them are from USA, from Japan, from Canada and they are doing also really cool things and I will share a bit more later. This one also I found so interesting.
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These companies are building the first one, NuVu, the first global LIDAR kind of like archive of the world. So they will be launching in 2025 the first proof of concept named Mr. Spoke, that's the satellite and then the second one, I know it's funny the
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name, Aright Labs, they are doing this kind of like type of SAR and they are also trying to have a 3D high resolution digital globe so they are going to be launching I think in two years if I remember correctly. So all these companies is, I suggest you to check what is happening,
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keep the newsletters in your inbox because I think, I mean, cool things are happening right there. And the ones I want to also share with you is these companies doing what I mentioned before in the one. They are saying I can give you space data as a service so tell me what sensor you need, I will build it, I will say it's yours,
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it's your payload but I will have a chance to have maybe part of the data you want to acquire and then we can say you have already satellite in space, even you didn't build it, even it's not your infrastructure, so that's also something very disruptive regarding cost for the data you will be acquiring with companies working with these guys right here.
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Anyway, and let us not forget the older players, I mean Airbus and Maxar are major players of course. I will say they are from kind of a mix, I will say from the older space industry and the new one because also they are developing many new things but I will say they are more like established big companies. So
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ten years ago, fifteen years ago, it was so hard to acquire data, it was so hard. You need to go to each of the companies, sign an agreement, having at least a million euro in your pocket to be able to knock one door and be listened. So I will say right now, I mean, thanks to all these platforms and marketplaces
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and these special hubs, you have the opportunity of having maybe smaller budgets, do a proof of concept on something else. You have companies like O42, SkyFi, Apollo Mapping, Skywatch, companies, one of them is from Germany, from the US, from Canada and then, oh shoot, okay.
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Okay, so check these platforms, you can find many cool things there and also open data, so please feel free to use those. Anyway, so something I'm very proud is that two months ago we had in Berlin the Tasking Sprint organized by Element 84 and also
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I was at the time working in O42 and we did this Tasking Sprint organized by us together, really leading by Element 84. So there's so many things happening regarding also how every single company has the metadata. So how can you make all the data, having the interoperability needed to be able to
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create products. So companies as Planet, Open Cosmos, Black Sky, LiveEO42, Satellogic were here doing all these discussions and then a lot of community work and also so many people committed to FOSS, they were there. So it's not only about the commercial, it's also about how even in commercial environments we can
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work together with all these things that are specifications to be able to work together and then maybe in the future they will become standards if they are adopted by the industry. Okay, so I have just a few minutes. Spaceports, two very important ones happening. Andoya, Norway and also one in its range in
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Sweden. I'm very happy to see this happening in the next year or so. Of course, I mean, next July 9th we're going to see Ariane 6 launching. That's one of the first after the last issue with Vega a couple of years ago. So very happy to see that. And
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I love it. I mean, it's doing so many things also regarding how they can support having data coming from the commercial companies. So I really suggest you to check the network of resources and then check what these companies are offering. So you will have 5,000
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euros in the ones you can see all this data for research, educational, pre-commercial, and you can build something. So if you need, I think, more than 5,000, you can also send an email today and say that you need more or maybe you can also have your own budget additional to the 5,000 euros. So I think some of my colleagues from
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O42 also, they are very involved with that, so let me know. And open data programs. So something I really, really admire about this is we were speaking about how SAR is complicated. So there are already some programs regarding open data like the CAPELA program. There is an open data also from Maxar
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supporting in a certain point humanitarian open street map. I'm not sure where is that right now. But one of the projects I really admire the most is UMRA. Four million dollars equivalent of open data available from them. So the first part of the project was one million and then in March they announced four
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million. I am waiting for the ten million announcement, I tell you that, because I think it will be happening pretty soon. So that's how these companies are having this commitment about the open data program. So I really think more people should be like digging their hands in and see what else they can develop with SAR. So let's not forget about, of course, the
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six options with commercial, but then the most stable and most supported program right now, of course, is Copernicus and Landsat. So let's not forget about how we can combine the open data from the Copernicus program Landsat together with commercial data.
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So my wish list for this is I want to see more open data programs available from commercial companies. I would love to see more UMRAs happening in different companies in more optical, in more hyperspectral, in more, I would love to see more open license because actually the program from UMRA is Creative Commons
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4.0, so I would love to see also more of that available. Space agencies, I want to see more of that working together with more platforms so they don't reinvent the wheel every five years, every six years, another platform, another thing. So how can you have a mid or long term goal to be able to have the access of all this data?
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And of course, I would love to see more communities, I mean, having more hands involved in all these projects because I think they need to hear more about what is happening in these companies and also together it will be, of course, stronger. So I think I made it. So thanks so much. And then if you have any questions,
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I'm around. Yeah, thanks Miriam for this really good introduction where the data actually comes from and now we have the chance to answer some questions.
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Thank you. I am Sultan from Saudi Arabia. I like to know real time monitoring. This is my subject is about to know how many satellites, there is a program to study how many satellites revisiting the site. Say, for example,
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in Tartu now. And I like to study phenomena of real timing, either in the city or agriculture. There is a program to tell me how many satellites visiting the site because I like to do consequences. Yeah, I think there are a few websites in there where they are showing you, I mean, not exactly Tartu, but kind of
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as they are capturing. Let me check the names and I can share that with you. But also, I mean, real time is relative because that is capturing right now and then it will go up, it will get something and then it will be going to the Grand Station and then get downloaded. Yeah, different resolution, no problem. But I like to study, you know, to see because there is many
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sensors visiting the site. There is a program, you know, you know some program. I think there is a website in there where it is showing, but not specifically like the city, it is showing a runway. I can check it to you and share with you later. Thank you.
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So there are only a few spaceports, right, that bring the payloads up to the space. So are these spaceports more or less controlled and what specific satellites they can, you know, allow to bring into space? I would say right now the most used spaceport
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is Vandenberg in California. It is the one used by SpaceX. They are the one also right now using for all launches. And I will say in the short term, medium term, I mean, you are going to see more about Andoya in Norway and also about the one in Sweden.
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There are also two more in the UK, one in Glasgow, no, sorry, in the Shetland Islands and also one in Cornwall that also they are being prepared, I mean, when we speak. And the other ones are in China and of course in Russia. I mean, I'm not speaking about those because I'm focusing right now in Europe. But the one used by
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everyone today is the one in Vandenberg. Yeah, one more question about small satellites for remote sensing. I don't see any of your slides mentioning about small satellites like Nanosats, CubeSats. They were mentioned already. All the companies, most of them
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they are having small satellites. Did you mention that? I didn't mention, but I mean, I should have mentioned that most of the companies I am right now showcasing in my slides, most of them are small satellites or CubeSats. Like Planet maybe? Yeah, most of them. Are there any other questions?
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Thank you Miriam, that was really inspiring and interesting above all. This is the first Phosphor-G that I attend after 11 years where we start talking about security, seriously.
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And I would like to hear from you how is this community approaching that, given that we are starting to hear concrete threats, concrete risks to all these missions out there in space. Yeah, that's a great question. And to be honest, I don't have a full answer because
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also it's so secret. I mean, what is happening that I will say we are not aware about all the threats that all these companies are receiving. So I heard about kind of like non-official things about how things have increased starting the war of Ukraine, and of course right now with the Middle East, I would say crisis, how these companies
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also are having certain things happening and threats, but there is no official information shared because they don't want to make it public. So the community at this moment, I would say we are not doing much because also the lack of information, but I would say that it's important to be knowledgeable,
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but if you are not working in the company inside, you need probably to fill a lot of NDAs to be able to have, I mean, or maybe also projects inside to be able to have this information. So unfortunately I'm not in there. Right, one more question. So thank you for your presentation. It was really great, but I have one comment.
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What I'm missing in this presentation, it was Copernicus data space ecosystem because it provides something like, I think, 50 petabytes of data. So I think that in the next presentation it would be worth to mention about it. As I said, I'm not attacking you. It was a really good presentation, but I think it's, for now,
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in this very moment, it's a main source of Copernicus data. So it's worth to mention it. No, no, totally agree with that. So in my last presentation, I saw that there was not enough knowledge about commercial satellites, commercial companies.
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That's what I decided to focus because I think community knows more about what is happening in Copernicus, but they don't know what's happening with the other companies. So that's a good point. Thanks so much. Maybe next year. All right. Thanks, Miriam.