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 2019
Mexico’s path to space
... 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...
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....
