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Space Technology To Play An Indispensable Role In Human Lives
The space-based capabilities for residents from the environmental, social, and economic perspectives open up formidable advantages in every possible sector.
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Applied Technology Review | Monday, November 14, 2022
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Reinforcing innovations in varied sectors with space-based technology opens up formidable advancements in the lives of human individuals.
FREMONT, CA: The space-based capabilities for residents from the environmental, social, and economic perspectives open up formidable advantages in every possible sector. Hence, space activities are highly monitored in recent years owing to the plausible innovations and positive impacts, it has favoured and will likely aid in the future years. One testamental approach via space-based technologies is the weather prediction and monitoring of climates, which has emerged as a crucial part of people’s daily lives in recent times, influencing the government, industry, and personal decision-making on a high scale.
Similarly, satellites, often leveraged for weather prediction, facilitate the right detection of storms and other possible disasters and thereby save millions of lives around the globe. That is, from innocent people killed in hurricanes owing to climate change, satellites enable an accurate prediction of hazardous situations and thus prepare people to survive and react accordingly. Moreover, they monitor greenhouse gases and several other crucial climate indicators, as well as the extended earth's ecosystem health.
Meanwhile, an intense observation of earth resources facilitates information and support for agricultural production, fisheries, freshwater, and forestry management, in addition to the right monitoring of harmful activities like illegal lodging, animal poaching, fires, and environmental pernicious mining. Whereas space communication capabilities hold an increased impact in every aspect of human civilisation, with satellite technologies holding an upper hand in banking and finance, navigation, and day-to-day communications, enabling IST and STD calls, video feeds, streaming media, satellite TV, and radio. These transformed technologies have likely evolved relative to the everyday routines of human individuals.
Likewise, space-based positioning, navigation, and timing services have gained momentum in recent years and will excel in the forthcoming periods owing to the enhanced land and sea navigation, logistics, precision agriculture, military operations, electrical grids, and varied societal aspects they proffer. For instance, space-based location services and mobile phone applications ranging from maps to dating services have elevated the significance of the technology in mobile. Dismantling these connections may confer unaccountable losses on both people and the industry, respectively.
Additionally, accelerating the economic opportunities to expand the commercial space and non-space sectors and establishing international space cooperation to tackle the presuming geopolitical tensions are several other admissible innovations favouring the invasion of space technology into human life. Alongside this, the mega constellations, the manufacturing of rare materials in space, point-to-point suborbital transport, space tourism, and asteroid impact prevention are likely to emerge in the future, reshaping space technology as the most feasible domain to favour increased productivity.