February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... an active Danger Area (D201) operated and managed by Defence and Space Company QinetiQ. From fully functioning communications satellites to smal cubeSats, business will be able to launch their equipment more frequently in future Nearby MoD Aberporth...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
...resources to attain the collective goal of human advancement by planetary exploration makes eminent sense. India’s GSAT-12 communication satellite launched by ISRO in July 2011 A variety of technology and cost-sharing models could be worked upon. For...
07 August 2017
Russia and China set to sign Moon exploration deal this autumn
... the viewpoint of investments the creation of space systems consisting of dozens and even hundreds of Earth remote sensing or communications satellites whose commercial success requires work on the markets, and also considering that the next stage...
19 August 2019
Maxar selected to build, fly first element of NASA’s Lunar Gateway
... are 91 spacecraft based on the 1300 currently on orbit for commercial operators – more than any other model of communications satellite. Maxar’s 1300-class spacecraft platform is also the basis for NASA’s Psyche mission, which will explore...
19 May 2021
Nigeria appoints new space agency head
...signatory on the peaceful uses of Outer Space Treaty and currently has three satellites in the orbit - one communication satellite and two remote sensing satellites. Prior to his appointment as Director-General, Dr Shaba was the Director of Strategic...
May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
... payloads were launched into low Earth and geostationary orbit (LEO and GEO). Many of these were communications satellites with the potential to earn high revenues over their operational lifetime. However, there was initially little...
