Space age technology can enhance rural people’s lives

SPACE AGE technology can help bring about major changes in the lives of people living in areas away from the main centres of population, a European expert has told an international conference, in Killarney.

Claudio Mastracci, of the European Space Agency (ESA), said space was helping bridge the digital divide, the disadvantage in modern communications between urban and rural areas.

“Satellites can offer cost-effective and efficient solutions, as you have already experienced in rural areas of Ireland, thanks to the interesting work done jointly with the ESA,” he said.