05 August 2016
Rio 2016 Summer Olympics Games, Brought to You by Your Local Satellite
... 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...
June 2015
Promoting growth at geostationary orbit with a one-stop-shop
... 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...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... support both current and future markets. The most lucrative sector of today’s commercial launch market is communications satellites (comsats) that operate in geosynchronous orbit (GEO) but are initially launched into geosynchronous transfer orbit...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... 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...
08 March 2016
Falcon 9 Successfully Launches SES-9
... Falcon 9 has successfully launched the SES-9 communications satellite on March 4, 2016, in spite of ...geostationary orbit. The spacecraft’s 81 Ku-band transponders will provide communications services for parts of Asia, Australia and the Middle East....
14 August 2016
Sixth successful landing for Space X rocket
... Atlantic Ocean onto the “Of Course I Still Love You” drone ship. The payload was JCSAT-16, a commercial communications satellite for SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida at 1:26 am ET, (5:26am UTC...
