... an overseas sporting event without delay and in real time. Since then, the Olympic Games have relied on communications satellites for increased broadcasting of the Games' events. Today, the global audience of the Olympic Games is billions of viewers...
.... It proved a watershed year for geostationary orbit (GEO), the orbit that hosts the majority of our commercial communications satellites. Mark Hempsell explains why he believes the sustainability of our geostationary assets is now at risk. The first...
... into the modern technological age, the Mexican government purchased a series of communications satellites to service the country. Initially the Morelos 1 and 2, geostationary satellites operated between 1985 and 1998 to provide telephony, data, and...
..., no one was entirely sure how Intelsat 901 would look, as there had never been an opportunity to see a communications satellite decades after launch. Would the solar panels have suffered damage? Would the insulation blankets be torn...
... 8 spacecraft. As of November 2014, there were more than 400 active satellites in geostationary orbit. The majority are communications satellites but there are some meteorological satellites there too. It is not just physical space that is limited...
... propelled servicing spacecraft with its highly efficient thrusters can relocate a satellite to serve a new market. Envisage a communication satellite operator covering a mature telecommunications markets, and there is an emerging region that...