Capability Toolkit

To develop a space-enabled product or solution, a wide array of diverse technologies, skills, and capabilities are needed.

Space-Enabled

Capabilities

  • Lets us collect visible data about the Earth's surface/atmosphere and observe the colour, size, quantity, and shape of objects from space. It’s used to study climate patterns, natural disasters, and environmental changes over time through land cover, vegetation, urban development, soil moisture, and water resources.

  • Uses satellites/spacecraft to send signals towards the Earth's surface and measure its reflection properties for our environment and natural resources. It shows the presence/absence of different materials like wood and metal, and also changes in objects such as clouds, topography, vegetation, ice sheets, wind speed and direction.

  • Measures thermal emissions of the Earth's surface and atmosphere from space, providing vital information about energy distribution, and heat properties. It's used to monitor atmospheric, land and sea surface temperatures, and water vapour, detect volcanic activity, generate thermal maps, and predict weather patterns and climate change.

  • Provides time duration, velocity direction, and geographic location information to/of objects and people on Earth/in space. It's critical to maintain orbit, navigate ships, aeroplanes, and vehicles, and for precise timing in research and financial transactions. GPS provides accurate positioning and timing information globally - like in Maps!

  • Use satellites orbiting the Earth to transmit and receive data, voice, and video signals over long distances. It's a reliable and cost-effective alternative for areas where traditional communication isn't available. It's used for TV broadcasting, internet connectivity, GPS, weather forecasting, military, and government.

General Technology

Capabilities

  • Provides people with an easy way to interact with a service/ digital platform. It includes user interface design, backend development, testing, integration, and deployment. It must meet users' needs with a seamless, user-friendly environment. Different types include social media, e- commerce, apps, software, and online communities.

  • Allows machines to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and language translation. On earth and in space, AI algorithms are used for autonomous navigation, robotics, image and data processing, and crew support to help us make discoveries.

  • Is the process of creating products, services or systems with the end user in mind. It involves user research, prototyping, and testing to produce user-centric outcomes that are easy to use and meet user needs. The ultimate goal is to create engaging, efficient, and satisfying products that increase user loyalty and business success.

Business

Capabilities

  • Identifies and creates new opportunities for a company through research, planning, and working/developing professional relationships with others in your industry. It’s essential for one to do this to stay competitive, operate in a socially responsible manner, and secure funding - all helping achieve business and sustainability goals.

  • Is the process of managing risks, planning, organising, and controlling resources to achieve specific goals and objectives within a defined timeframe. On Earth and in space, Project Managers are critical to the success of complex tasks like satellite design/launch, space station construction/operation, and manned missions.

  • Ensures adequate financial resources for operations and strategic goal achievement from managing budgets and forecasting future financial needs, to making investment decisions. It helps evaluate project viability, manage cash flow, monitor compliance and performance, and ensure sustainability.

  • To get people to work with you, help them understand what you do - to which conveying information about a brand, product, experience or service to a target audience is vital. From digital, socials and events to physical assets like flyers, understanding the competitive landscape/ market trends is key to achieving strategic goals.