08 July 2019
Amazon seeks approval for 3,236 broadband satellite constellation
... own intended low Earth orbit internet service. News of Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite broadband venture was first reported by ... world-wide lacking reliable broadband service, so clearly Amazon believes there is room for one more mega-constellation...
28 April 2020
Free live webinars for the small space sector during COVID-19 pandemic
..., etc.) for make them geolocalisable and navigable via a GPS system. - Phil Cooper (Account Lead EMEA @Amazon Web Services (AWS) Ground Station) An established business professional with 19 years experience in the geospatial and EO industry...
31 July 2020
Amazon's Kuiper mega constellation gets FCC approval
... satellites, so that the internet giant can provide continuous broadband internet access to millions across the globe. Amazon filed its application to the FCC last July, requesting the distribution of the satellites in 98 orbital planes at three...
November 2018
Monitoring illegal rainforest deforestation
...soil of the road. Roads - the veins of destruction - shown in a satellite image illustrating the extent of logging in the Amazon. Current tools and methods A more efficient tool is desperately needed to detect the beginning of illegal actions in time...
May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
...life on our planet. The names of Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and Blue Origin, and Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, are ... They live in debt-consuming oxygen produced by the Russian taiga and Amazon jungles. There is a 40-year trend, moving Earth Overshoot Day –...
January 2020
Open source space sustainability
..., and recently sought authorisation for an additional 30,000 satellites. The regulatory filings of SpaceX, OneWeb, and Amazon’s Project Kuiper alone foreshadow a 10 to 25-fold increase in the population of LEO satellites in the coming decade. The...
