Features/Reports

Forecast for Greenland

More Challenging Than the South and Covers Both Weather and Ice Few countries have such a large span in their forecasting as Denmark. The mainland is localised around 55 degrees north, but the forecasting also includes Greenland with large oceans and land areas mainly north of the Arctic Circle. Many people along the coast of […]

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The Weather from Space – Meteorological Satellites Celebrate Sixty Years

Sixty years ago, meteorologist for the first time could see the Earth’s weather systems from observatories high above the clouds. The world’s first meteorologically satellite, the American TIROS, from a height of more than six hundred kilometres above the Earth could follow the development of the cloud systems and their movements above Earth. TIROS -1, […]

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Broadband for the Arctic From 2023

  Norway’s Intention to Build and Operate Communication Systems for the Artic Areas   Warmer climate and a desire to utilise natural resources, has led to an increased activity in the Arctic and the near Arctic areas, and similarly, the need for adequate communication has also increased. Today the communication systems are not the best. […]

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NordicSpace – Twenty-Five-Year Anniversary

Twenty-five years ago, the first issues of Nordicspace was published. At the time it was titled “Nordic Space Activities”, and it was published in printed version and in the Nordic languages and mainly distributed to the Nordic countries, however, some copies were also distributed around the world. Over the course of the next fifteen years, […]

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Broadband for All

Broadband for All – OneWeb and European Industry in the Lead   The ultimate goal of providing quick broadband for all, independent of geographical locations on the globe is not an unattainable goal, however, it requires huge investments and is challenging at best. Using the existing satellites in geostationary orbits does not provide customers with […]

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Sixty Years of Space Exploration

The launch of Explorer 1 marked the beginning of US spaceflight, as well as the scientific exploration of space. With the launch of Sputnik 1 the Soviet Union took a leading role in the space race, a challenge the Americans society not could fail to return. After some initial troubles in the start with the […]

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This Main Space Issues This Summer

  Two principal questions have circulated in the media in an otherwise quiet summertime, in terms of space activities. First, do we need a spare planet, secondly, is artificial intelligence a danger to our existence?   As an introduction to the Starmus Festival in Norway last spring, the physician Steven Hawkins said that if the […]

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