How Space Aye is putting Scottish space tech on the map

Company merges real-time satellite imagery with data from billions of IoT devices

John Leonard
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How Space Aye is putting Scottish space tech on the map
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How Space Aye is putting Scottish space tech on the map

The space sector is growing faster in Scotland than any other part of the UK, thanks to geographically advantageous satellite launch sites and a plethora of local engineering skills. This has spawned a number of hardware and software startups, among them the geographically rooted and affirmatively named Space Aye.

Glasgow-based Space Aye is building a data platform that merges real-time satellite imagery with data from billions of IoT devices to provide insights about what's happening in the world. Effect...

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