June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...work of the United Nations to keep weapons out of space Under reforming minister Takeo Kawamura, navigation and communications satellites were added, with military security identified as the top priority of the space programme. The Liberal Democratic...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... ballistic and hypersonic missiles. Next, the Space Development Agency’s plan to launch the Transport Layer or 126 communications satellites to support Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) capability, basically taking data from space and...
10 March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
... the mainstay of the space industry: more than half of the space business involves building and launching communication satellites. Satcoms services and applications are the largest space sector and are a major driver of space technology...
March 2015
Satellite technology in newsgathering and disaster coverage
... down. We also have a throughput problem. Historically, there is just not a lot of total bandwidth on a conventional geostationary communications satellite. There is more internet bandwidth serving many small neighbourhoods than exists on a typical...
March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
...18,600 miles into space, just shy of the 22,236 miles at which US satellites in geosynchronous orbit - including essential missile warning and communications satellites - are located. The US has built an enormously expensive and delicate architecture...
November 2017
Geospatial maritime solutions
...oceans for customers such as DigitalGlobe. Key communications capabilities built by Harris are on Inmarsat communications satellites and our navigation payloads on Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites help you find your way. Shipping signatures...
