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...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
..., UNOOSA should exercise the power of decision-making and dispute resolution. Registration of the Iridium 33 communications satellite, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in September 1997, was accidentally omitted. In February 2009 The Iridium...
April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
..., and potentially as many as 4000 over the next decade. Constellation satellites tend to be small (only a few hundred kg) compared to traditional GEO communication satellites at several tonnes, but many still exceed the capacity of the smallest...
September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
... new economy which, like all new technology, is woefully undefended. Features first, security second. A Tiantong-1 Mobile Communications Satellite was placed in orbit by China’s Long March 3B rocket in August 2016. What is notable in this image...
October 2019
Space-based cybersecurity challenges for NATO
... actors find new ways to infiltrate weapons systems. Quantum communications satellite technology, which provides a new way to encrypt information transmitted between satellites - increasing the difficulty of hacking - is likely to make existing...
