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Digital Planet: KiboCUBE Kick-Starts Satellites

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Japanese Experiment Module - Exposed Facility as it looks from inside Kibo.

10/10/2017 GMT

KiboCUBE Kick-Starts Satellites

BBC World Service - Digital Planet, KiboCUBE Kick-Starts Satellites

How KiboCUBE is enabling countries to deploy their own satellites.

KiboCUBE enables countries to deploy their own satellites; Riverwatch using tech to monitor rivers; eLearning Africa; an AI opera.

KiboCUBE is an initiative that offers educational and research institutions from developing countries the opportunity to deploy cube satellites (CubeSats) from the Kibo module of the International Space Station (ISS).  Kate Arkless Gray reports on Guatamala's first satellite.

A New Zealand farmer and fisherman, Grant Muir, who has witnessed first-hand the impact that poor water quality had on his local stream has developed a solar-powered, portable water tester.  Simon Morton reports from Wairarapa in New Zealand

eLearning is on the rise in Africa but there’s a dearth of local content.  Click talks to Professor Bitange Ndemo from the University of Nairobi who believes Africa is in the midst of a technological colonisation, preyed on by big tech giants.

Computer scientist Luc Steels has composed an opera based on the legend of Faust, with a twenty-first-century twist. It’s a performance with traditional choir, singers and orchestra with but augmented by the very latest technologies like virtual reality.  Luc Steels talks about the opera with Click. 

Producer: Colin Grant

(Photo:  Japanese Experiment Module - Exposed Facility as it looks from inside Kibo.  Image Credit: NASA)

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