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Discover how space technology influences our everyday lives beyond rockets and satellites. Learn surprising applications from expert space speakers!
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What’s up comes down, right? This is an account of just how influential space technology is to our normal daily lives.
Every day, you look to the sky and marvel at the beauty the sun, moon, and stars bring to this earth. Once upon a time, scientists thought, “We can go there”, and they did. The journey started with ideas that needed technology—space technology—to come to life.
They were successful because today, the global space technologies industry is valued in billions. Mind you, this number is bound to multiply in a few years.
Now, has the thought of space technology applications in daily life ever crossed your mind when you are going about your day? You are in for a surprising realization once you really consider it, and it’s something space speakers can share with you. Space technology isn’t just about rockets and satellites, it is part of our everyday lives in ways you might not even realize.
You are about to find out just how.
Space technology examples are all around you, but let’s start with your morning.
Does the bed you lay on have a memory foam mattress?
That comfortable material was originally developed by NASA to improve aircraft cushions’ comfortability. And that scratch-resistant lens coating on your reading or sunglasses? That’s another space technology spin-off we see each day. Even the wireless earbuds you use for your workouts rely on technology that was refined for space communication systems.
Think about that your smartphone has more computing power than the computers that steered the Apollo missions to the moon. But it is not just about processing power. The GPS that helps you navigate to work was developed for military and space applications.
Those amazing photos you take? The image sensors in your phone camera are based on technology NASA developed to take pictures in space.
It has become a routine that wherever you want to leave the house, you check the weather forecast. If it’s sunny, your dresses and shorts come out. If it’s raining, umbrellas and coats.
All this is thanks to weather satellites and advanced space-based monitoring systems. With such real-time space technology applications, we can now predict weather patterns in advance. And accurately!
Beyond just telling what to wear, farmers use these techniques to plan planting time as well as harvesting. When you book a flight, air control uses this technology to cancel or allow your flight to take off. Those delays are intentional, thanks to this technology.
Emergency service providers also use these to prepare. They know what supplies to gather before disaster strikes.
The medical sector also has its selection of uses of space technology.
The most notable one is the ear thermometers that take your temperature in seconds. These devices use infrared technology developed to measure the temperature of stars.
We all know that space exploration is no task for a day. Astraunts take off and are away for weeks, sometimes, years. The food they feed on while they are there has to sustain them this entire time. And this bore the art of food preservation.
Advancements in food preservation and water filtration come from space technology.
Let’s highlight a few space techs in the machines around you for a moment.
Are those protective materials in your vehicle like ceramics and advanced composites? Many were first developed to protect spacecraft during re-entry when the temperatures hit record highs. They work similarly in your vehicle.
Aircrafts also have a few anti-icing systems in the windscreen and engine to prevent ice-build. Due to the extreme cold in space, space shuttles use this same space technology to keep everything ice-free.
Another one is cordless power tools. These were built explicitly for engineers making quick fixes to their ships while in space. Thanks to them, you can fix anything off-site when you are on your next DIY mission, remember this.
The loss of forest cover globally is shocking; tropical primary forest loss totaled 3.7 million hectares between 2022 and 2023. For context, that’s like losing ten football fields each minute.
Space technology is the reason we can quantify such losses. Using satellites, we can monitor everything environmental; forest cover, global temperatures, ocean currents, and air pollution.
While we are on the topic of pollution, about 113 million in the US live under unhealthy air pollution conditions.
It’s clear that space technology, as it is, is already making our lives easier. Now, picture future space technology.
The latest advancements the world is excited about are perhaps the application of artificial intelligence as well as robotics. There is also the potential for new materials and energy solutions that are already underway in space exploration.
In as much as space is associated with the scientific gurus and geeks into stars and constellations, you have a role in it, too. So, if your train of thought is “What does this mean for me?”, you are already part of this technological migration.
Every time you use GPS navigation to get to a hidden gem, check the weather, or take a selfie, you are using space technology. And as private companies join government space agencies in pushing the boundaries of exploration, we are going to see even more innovations making their way into our daily lives.
When you understand something well, you appreciate it more; its beginnings as well as its current standings. You also get to anticipate just how influential and helpful its future will be.
This has been a general rundown of just how space technology is part of your life already. The next time someone asks “What is space technology good for?”, you can tell them that it is good for pretty much everything we do in our modern world.
It’s in the bed we lay, the phones we use, the glasses we wear, and its application is in the environment we live in.
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