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...
26 February 2018
The New Gold Rush: the Riches of Space Beckon!
... has already been proved to some extent by the communications satellite revolution but writers have also predicted untold wealth generation... from more ambitious applications such as solar power satellites and asteroid mining. This, effectively, is the...
10 September 2026
HOTOL and Skylon: The Story of Britain’s Spaceplanes
... the project considered it little more than a dream, good for public relations but not for selling communications satellites, many of us hoped we were wrong and that Britain would pioneer reusable launch technology. As Coppinger succinctly puts...
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...
31 March 2017
Success for SpaceX's first 'flight-proven' launch
...Success for SpaceX as the company is the first to use a ‘flight-proven’ rocket to deliver SES’s commercial communications satellite to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). The SES-10 mission marked an historic milestone as SpaceX seeks to prove that...
