Sep 30, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 11 segments
This episode of Inside EOSC features Ravi Kapur, filmmaker, science communicator and founder of Imperative Space and ArtEO. This special live edition was recorded at the second Innovation Prototyping…
Andrew DubberHost
But there does seem to be a metaphor in the fact that you are very interested in space, but the space that you're very interested in is not about looking upward and outward, but more about looking down at us.
And there's a lot about Earth observation and a lot about things as, I guess, as...
Mundane is the wrong word, but like soil erosion, for instance, when you think about space, you don't necessarily think about soil erosion.
But these things are the sort of the top down grand view of things that are very kind of down to earth and mundane and day to day.
There seems to be a pattern of that in the things that you seem to be interested in.
I mean, to be clear though, we did start out doing an awful lot beyond Earth observation in imperative space.
I mean, in the early days, we were as active in human space flight and planetary exploration and other ways of leveraging microgravity, for example, for science and so on.
When I say active, I don't mean we were actually sending people into orbit or traveling to the solar system, but in terms of supporting those sides of the sector, building narratives, helping with engagement, helping with growing an understanding of the potential of all of these strands.
It is a phenomenally impactful and central capability that we've developed as human beings that Even now, even after 10 or 12 years of programs like Copernicus, which have opened up access to Earth observation data massively, it's still relatively little understood in the wider public and the world at large.
Of course there are applications in defence, in military contexts as well, and we of course don't tend to get directly involved in much of that or any of that, but it is something that is hard to ignore once you realise its sheer vast scope and the sheer quantity of data that is available every day.
The first one I guess I'm curious about is how do you know when you're doing it well? Which bit? Let's say the communication part of the sheer scale of data that you're collecting.
You're communicating it and it's going out and there's an educational element of that.
I mean, it's interesting how Once you're involved in satellite earth observation, it's actually quite hard to not get involved in the innovation component itself.
But there does seem to be a metaphor in the fact that you are very interested in space, but the space that you're very interested in is not about looking upward and outward, but more about looking down at us.
And there's a lot about Earth observation and a lot about things as, I guess, as...
Mundane is the wrong word, but like soil erosion, for instance, when you think about space, you don't necessarily think about soil erosion.
But these things are the sort of the top down grand view of things that are very kind of down to earth and mundane and day to day.
There seems to be a pattern of that in the things that you seem to be interested in.
I mean, to be clear though, we did start out doing an awful lot beyond Earth observation in imperative space.
I mean, in the early days, we were as active in human space flight and planetary exploration and other ways of leveraging microgravity, for example, for science and so on.
When I say active, I don't mean we were actually sending people into orbit or traveling to the solar system, but in terms of supporting those sides of the sector, building narratives, helping with engagement, helping with growing an understanding of the potential of all of these strands.
It is a phenomenally impactful and central capability that we've developed as human beings that Even now, even after 10 or 12 years of programs like Copernicus, which have opened up access to Earth observation data massively, it's still relatively little understood in the wider public and the world at large.
Of course there are applications in defence, in military contexts as well, and we of course don't tend to get directly involved in much of that or any of that, but it is something that is hard to ignore once you realise its sheer vast scope and the sheer quantity of data that is available every day.
The first one I guess I'm curious about is how do you know when you're doing it well? Which bit? Let's say the communication part of the sheer scale of data that you're collecting.
You're communicating it and it's going out and there's an educational element of that.
I mean, it's interesting how Once you're involved in satellite earth observation, it's actually quite hard to not get involved in the innovation component itself.
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