• Question: What are the short term and long term results that will come out of your research, and how will this affect us in the long run (the general public)

    Asked by Polly Dyke to Vinita, Rachel, Pam, Christopher, Brian, Andrew on 11 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by Fleur.
    • Photo: Pam Anderson

      Pam Anderson answered on 11 Mar 2019:

      The companies I support are all generating new services using satellite data to bring benefit to life on Earth. Things like remote access to medical services, tracking disease, assessing resources for offshore renewables, supporting tourism applications….the list is endless. I hope one day that these services are being used by the general public all over the world.

    • Photo: Rachel Hudson

      Rachel Hudson answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      There are not many short term results since it will take many many years before our satellites are launched/ reach their destination (apart from maybe improving the way magnetometers are built).

      In the long term, Solar Orbiter will help people on earth by studying how solar flares are produced in the sun – This is important because at them moment nobody understands how they works and a big solar flare could destroy all of our satellite communications (like the things Pam has mentioned above).
      JUICE will help people on earth because we are trying to find out if the moons around Jupiter are habitable so potentially we could find life there or even move there ourselves after all the bad people destroy the planet here…

    • Photo: Christopher Youens

      Christopher Youens answered on 14 Mar 2019:

      The satellites that I work on are responsible for ‘Earth Observation’, which is basically just photographing the earth with high detail. We can use this information to monitor disasters or the effects of climate change, as well as a load of other applications.

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