Who would have thought that over 50 years later, the space race would be back on? And this time, every country with a space program seems to have their eye on the moon's south pole. Between the anticipation around NASA's upcoming Artemis mission, to the Middle East entering the space race with plans to launch an Emirati-built rover this year, it's easy to forget that SpaceX's Starlink is expanding in Africa (most recently, offering high-performance connectivity in the West African country of Benin), with Amazon's Project Kuiper following suit. While the idea of colonizing the moon, Mars and beyond is exciting, there's another side to space that is changing how we see the planet we currently live on – data.
For Clint Crosier, Director of Aerospace and Satellite Solutions for
