Satellites are checking if boats in remote places are fishing legally

Hiber

By Donna Lu

Perched on a desk in entrance of me is a shrimp satellite. Four unlit panels stick out esteem the spokes of a windmill, related to central physique the scale of a desktop computer. It weighs lower than 10 kilograms, and appears esteem a feature buff’s toy.

Suspended precariously on a steel rod, it’s no longer easy to judge a satellite factual esteem right here’s hurtling around Earth, at an altitude of 600 kilometres.

This mannequin belongs to skills firm Hiber and is a existence-dimension reproduction of its diversified nanosatellites …