Media Updates Archives - Page 5 of 7 - Starion, System engineering for space, defence & critical infrastructures

Artist's impression of the Biomass satellite scanning forests on Earth

29 January 2024

11 minutes

Space – Helping to Protect Our Forests

How the Biomass satellite will provide critical information to help protect and expand our remaining forests.

3 January 2024

8 minutes

Why Space Weather Presents a Bigger Threat Than Ever – and How to Prepare

Simon Machin from the UK Met Office explains why improving our resilience to space weather is vital.

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20 September 2023

7 minutes

11 Ways to Ensure Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design and Collaborative Engineering

Concurrent design sessions bring together the client, experts from various domains and system engineers to develop an integral, consisten...

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22 August 2023

4 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 11 – Avoiding Bias in Decision-Making

11. Avoiding bias in decision-making A final challenge that we face when supporting rigour and quality in concurrent design is how to max...

illustration showing quantum particle entanglement

16 August 2023

4 minutes

Quantum Technology – The Marvel That Will Secure Our Digital Society

In the realm of cutting-edge technology, quantum computing has emerged as both a marvel and a concern. The appeal of ‘quantum leaps’ in p...

Illustration of astronauts and spacecraft on the Moon

20 July 2023

6 minutes

Why Radiation is a Problem for Space Exploration – and How to Tackle It

How mission scientists and engineers tackle the challenges of space radiation for space exploration missions

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18 July 2023

4 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 10 – How to Manage Trade-offs and Infeasible Aspects

10. How to manage trade-offs and infeasible aspects In the early design phase of a complex project, many details are still undecided and ...

21 June 2023

5 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 9 – How to Manage the Interfaces Between Subsystems

9. How to Manage the Interfaces Between Subsystems When designing complex systems, one area that is good to explore as early as possible ...

20 June 2023

4 minutes

Space Mission Ground Segments: A Serious Playground for New Technologies

Gone are the days when space mission ground segments were perceived as the least interesting part of space infrastructure. Instead, for t...

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25 May 2023

5 minutes

How to Embrace AI and Machine Learning

Contrary to what you might think from recent media coverage, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have been around for ...

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18 May 2023

5 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 8 – Create shared understanding without looking stupid

8. Create shared understanding without looking stupid When talking about complex systems in concurrent design sessions, people will inevi...

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3 May 2023

5 minutes

How to grow a sustainable business through innovation in a time of global change

The world around us is changing rapidly, driven and enforced by disruptive events. These include the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change an...

19 April 2023

4 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 7 – How to Deal with Blaming and Shaming

7. How to deal with naming and shaming When issues are revealed in concurrent design sessions, it is inevitable that some blaming and sha...

23 March 2023

5 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 6 – Challenging the Experts

6. Challenging the experts When you are the facilitator in concurrent design sessions you may know a lot less about the topic than the pa...

15 February 2023

4 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 5 – Focus Without Losing a Holistic View

5. Focus without losing a holistic view Quality is created by focus; the more we zoom in, the more issues we find and can resolve. Howeve...

Illustration of a digital twin Earth. Image copyright ESA

24 January 2023

4 minutes

Contributing to Development of Europe’s Destination Earth Project

We are supporting ESA and EUMETSAT in the implementation of the European Commission’s (EC’s) flagship initiative Destination Earth

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19 January 2023

4 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 4 – Quality In is Quality Out

4. Quality in is quality out When we support our stakeholders to present the information they bring to the table in a structured and comp...

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15 December 2022

4 minutes

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 3 – Validation

3. Validation and doing the maths Validation is a standard practice in system engineering, but it is still mostly a planned and separate ...

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Space – Helping to Protect Our Forests

Why Space Weather Presents a Bigger Threat Than Ever – and How to Prepare

11 Ways to Ensure Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design and Collaborative Engineering

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 11 – Avoiding Bias in Decision-Making

Quantum Technology – The Marvel That Will Secure Our Digital Society

Why Radiation is a Problem for Space Exploration – and How to Tackle It

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 10 – How to Manage Trade-offs and Infeasible Aspects

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 9 – How to Manage the Interfaces Between Subsystems

Space Mission Ground Segments: A Serious Playground for New Technologies

How to Embrace AI and Machine Learning

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 8 – Create shared understanding without looking stupid

How to grow a sustainable business through innovation in a time of global change

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 7 – How to Deal with Blaming and Shaming

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 6 – Challenging the Experts

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 5 – Focus Without Losing a Holistic View

Contributing to Development of Europe’s Destination Earth Project

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 4 – Quality In is Quality Out

Ensuring Quality and Rigour in Concurrent Design: 3 – Validation