https://www.terravek.com/blog/ Writing from Terravek engineers, scientists and managers. en-GB © 2007–2026 Terravek Systems N.V. press@terravek.com (Lotte de Wilde) webmaster@terravek.com (Tom Ashby) Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Terravek Web Platform tvk-web-4.2.1-b3182 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://www.terravek.com/assets/img/social/terravek-og.jpg https://www.terravek.com/blog/ https://www.terravek.com/blog/2026/reading-a-job-advertisement-critically.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2026/reading-a-job-advertisement-critically.html A recruiter's guide to what job advertisements actually tell you — including ours. Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Emre Şahin People & Culture https://www.terravek.com/blog/2026/twelve-weeks-in-the-soc-an-intern-s-account.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2026/twelve-weeks-in-the-soc-an-intern-s-account.html I am a BTU undergraduate on placement in Terravek's Security Operations Centre. Here is what it is actually like. Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Anneli Kukk People & Culture https://www.terravek.com/blog/2026/twenty-years-of-photonwerk-optics.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2026/twenty-years-of-photonwerk-optics.html The München optics bench predates Terravek's ownership by seven years. What has changed and what has deliberately not. Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Bettina Reuss Research https://www.terravek.com/blog/2026/orbis-4-2-what-shipped-and-what-slipped.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2026/orbis-4-2-what-shipped-and-what-slipped.html The May release notes, plus the two things we said would be in it and are not. Thu, 21 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Sander Bruinsma Engineering https://www.terravek.com/blog/2026/six-months-of-the-unified-tasking-fabric.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2026/six-months-of-the-unified-tasking-fabric.html GRIDSCAN customers were migrated onto the shared tasking fabric in November. What broke, what did not. Thu, 07 May 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Marta Silva Product https://www.terravek.com/blog/2026/coordinated-disclosure-a-year-of-reports.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2026/coordinated-disclosure-a-year-of-reports.html We received 31 reports last year through security@terravek.com. Here is what happened to them. Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Ingrid Halvorsen Cybersecurity https://www.terravek.com/blog/2026/nineteen-years-and-one-roadmap.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2026/nineteen-years-and-one-roadmap.html ORBIS, GRIDSCAN, TIDEWATCH and AGRISENSE are converging onto a single tasking and delivery fabric. Why now. Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Daan Kruithof Product https://www.terravek.com/blog/2026/model-cards-three-years-on.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2026/model-cards-three-years-on.html We committed to publishing failure modes in 2021. Here is what it has actually cost and returned. Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Yuxin Zhao AI & Machine Learning https://www.terravek.com/blog/2026/what-we-got-wrong-about-multi-region.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2026/what-we-got-wrong-about-multi-region.html eu-de-1 has been live for five years. Some of the assumptions we built it on turned out to be wrong. Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0200 Kaarel Mägi Cloud & Platform https://www.terravek.com/blog/2025/the-economics-of-a-three-year-fieldkit-deployment.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2025/the-economics-of-a-three-year-fieldkit-deployment.html The purchase price of an in-situ node is the smallest part of what it costs. Here is the rest of it. Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Jasper Vermeulen Product https://www.terravek.com/blog/2025/terravek-summit-2025-orbis-4-and-584-people.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2025/terravek-summit-2025-orbis-4-and-584-people.html Two days, 31 countries, and the announcement we had been sitting on since March. Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Joris Veenstra Events https://www.terravek.com/blog/2025/why-our-api-has-a-boring-deprecation-policy.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2025/why-our-api-has-a-boring-deprecation-policy.html 36 months of support and no breaking changes within a major version. The policy is dull and that is the entire value. Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Maarten de Groot Engineering https://www.terravek.com/blog/2025/hiring-for-security-in-a-small-team.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2025/hiring-for-security-in-a-small-team.html What I look for when the security engineering team is three people and every hire is a quarter of the function. Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Laura Peeters Cybersecurity https://www.terravek.com/blog/2025/zeeland-three-and-a-half-hours-of-warning.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2025/zeeland-three-and-a-half-hours-of-warning.html The storm-surge early warning service, how it works, and the limits we were careful to state up front. Thu, 19 Jun 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Lucia Moreno Customer Stories https://www.terravek.com/blog/2025/persistent-scatterer-interferometry-explained-without-the-mathematics.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2025/persistent-scatterer-interferometry-explained-without-the-mathematics.html How we measure millimetre ground movement from space, and the three things that most often go wrong. Thu, 08 May 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Hanne Vestergaard Research https://www.terravek.com/blog/2025/interfaces-between-four-planets-integrating-an-acquisition.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2025/interfaces-between-four-planets-integrating-an-acquisition.html We have integrated two companies. The second went considerably better, and the reason was a written playbook nobody wanted to write. Thu, 24 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Priya Ramanathan Company https://www.terravek.com/blog/2025/what-a-real-post-incident-review-looks-like.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2025/what-a-real-post-incident-review-looks-like.html We publish a review for every incident with customer impact. Here is the structure and why blame is absent from it. Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Miguel Soares Cloud & Platform https://www.terravek.com/blog/2025/a-decade-of-the-vollenhove-calibration-range.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2025/a-decade-of-the-vollenhove-calibration-range.html Forty-two nodes, a reflector array and three campaigns a year. Why a software company owns a field in Overijssel. Thu, 30 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Sofia Ricci Research https://www.terravek.com/blog/2024/green-2030-our-targets-and-where-we-are-behind.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2024/green-2030-our-targets-and-where-we-are-behind.html We published a set of 2030 commitments this year. Two of them are on track and one is not. Thu, 14 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0200 Priya Ramanathan Sustainability https://www.terravek.com/blog/2024/our-pay-gap-figures-published-again.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2024/our-pay-gap-figures-published-again.html We publish gender pay gap data across all eight countries whether or not the law requires it. This year's numbers, including the one that got worse. Tue, 08 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0200 Katrin Wiegand People & Culture https://www.terravek.com/blog/2024/orbis-4-and-inference-at-the-edge.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2024/orbis-4-and-inference-at-the-edge.html Running models on the payload rather than after downlink changes what is possible, and what is sensible. Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0200 Daan Kruithof Product https://www.terravek.com/blog/2024/how-we-choose-which-alerts-wake-someone-up.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2024/how-we-choose-which-alerts-wake-someone-up.html Our page volume dropped 62% and our incident detection got faster. Those are related. Thu, 11 Jul 2024 09:00:00 +0200 Triin Saar Cloud & Platform https://www.terravek.com/blog/2024/scheduled-maintenance-is-not-an-incident.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2024/scheduled-maintenance-is-not-an-incident.html How we schedule, announce and run disruptive changes — and why we announce ones that turn out to need no downtime. Thu, 27 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0200 Sven Dijkstra Cloud & Platform https://www.terravek.com/blog/2024/svalgrund-building-a-ground-station-where-nothing-else-is.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2024/svalgrund-building-a-ground-station-where-nothing-else-is.html Notes from commissioning an unstaffed X-band downlink node 200 km inside the Arctic Circle. Thu, 16 May 2024 09:00:00 +0200 Mathieu Blanchard Engineering https://www.terravek.com/blog/2024/seventeen-years.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2024/seventeen-years.html Terravek is seventeen today. A short reflection on what has and has not changed since two rooms above a bicycle shop. Thu, 14 Mar 2024 09:00:00 +0200 Saskia Bakhuis Company https://www.terravek.com/blog/2024/wildfire-season-is-a-data-problem-before-it-is-a-fire-problem.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2024/wildfire-season-is-a-data-problem-before-it-is-a-fire-problem.html Clearance compliance and wildfire risk are different questions. Most utilities are only answering one of them. Thu, 25 Jan 2024 09:00:00 +0200 Dana Whitfield Customer Stories https://www.terravek.com/blog/2023/black-friday-for-satellite-imagery-does-not-exist.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2023/black-friday-for-satellite-imagery-does-not-exist.html A short note on discounting, quarter-end, and why our list price is our price. Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:00:00 +0200 Nuno Ferreira Alves Company https://www.terravek.com/blog/2023/terravek-academy-teaching-what-we-wish-we-had-known.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2023/terravek-academy-teaching-what-we-wish-we-had-known.html Three certification tracks, free curriculum licences for universities, and why we built it. Thu, 09 Nov 2023 09:00:00 +0200 Sophie Renard People & Culture https://www.terravek.com/blog/2023/atlas-is-public-and-the-sdks-are-open-source.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2023/atlas-is-public-and-the-sdks-are-open-source.html Every ORBIS capability is now available programmatically, with a published OpenAPI specification and a free sandbox. Thu, 14 Sep 2023 09:00:00 +0200 Maarten de Groot Product https://www.terravek.com/blog/2023/charity-matched-giving-and-why-we-stopped-the-volunteering-day.html https://www.terravek.com/blog/2023/charity-matched-giving-and-why-we-stopped-the-volunteering-day.html We replaced a company volunteering day with something less photogenic and considerably more useful. Thu, 27 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0200 Katrin Wiegand Sustainability