The Brief

The extent of Arctic sea ice during summer is decreasing by 12.6% per decade due to global warming. The European Space Programme Agency commissioned the second CASSINI Hackathon to focus on the Arctic to show how European space technologies can help us to access, understand and protect the arctic in a number of different ways.​

Technologies included; existing and future secure connectivity satellite infrastructures, geospatial data from Copernicus, and positioning tech from Galileo & EGNOS.​

Our Solution

We launched a targeted campaign to attract hackers from across Europe, secured tech mentors, and arranged the venue for a weekend-long hackathon held in Madrid.. The hackathon addressed 3 tracks:​

• Secure connectivity: new solutions to meet the future needs for secure connectivity, in remote areas of the Earth and places currently underserved with high-speed, low latency internet connection. ​
• Earth observation: for new products and services that utilise geospatial information from Copernicus Earth observation data and its services to monitor, understand and provide insights into the changing environment on and around our planet.​
• Satellite positioning: for new products and services that use satellite positioning data and signals from Galileo & EGNOS to understand movements and locations​

Results​