April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
..., 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...
October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... was launched in December 2018 to an 800 km/50 degrees high circular orbit together with a Hongyan 1 prototype communications satellite. Tianhui 1 topographical satellite. Ludi Kancha Weixing (LKW) LKW is a high-resolution optical Earth observation...
April 2025
Spacecraft anomalies and insurance losses
... is still common for certain classes of spacecraft, for example communications satellites in geostationary orbit (GEO) or commercial Earth observation satellites in sun-synchronous orbit (SSO). However, it is less common where there is a lot...
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 2024
ROOM at the 74th International Astronautical Congress
... Republic of Azerbaijan, which, via its teleport in Baku, operates the Azerspace-1 and -2 communications satellites and the Azersky imaging satellite. In August 2009, President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree to establish and develop Azerbaijan’s space...
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....
