April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
...situation may worsen drastically if several companies execute their plans to fill LEO with overwhelming quantities of communications satellites. If these plans are fulfilled, the current number of artificial objects purposely placed in orbit may more...
April 2020
Spaceport Cornwall – from protests to sustainability
... with local academia and local industry on a joint project such as a community satellite: setting a sustainability challenge for a satellite application, designing and building that satellite, launching and tracking it from the same area and asking...
May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
... developed from a perception that the country is being harassed by the West. The purchase or development of geostationary communications satellites was thwarted by the sanctions and even Russia eventually removed its support. Commercial space imaging...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
... the experience of Maxar Technologies. In space infrastructure, Maxar has pivoted from building large geostationary communications satellites (under the former Space Systems Loral) to flexible smallsat space architecture across multiple mission sets...
October 2020
Essential role of satellites in disaster and pandemic management
... responses. Healthcare centres used real-time imagery of patients, transmitted through a satellite moderator, and processed to the communication satellite platform before it went back to the control centre for assessment. Furthermore, ‘telemedicine...
January 2021
Safeguarding space - lessons from decommissioning in the energy industry
... the big question remains - how can the removal of satellites from orbit be encouraged among the global space community? A well-documented collision between the Iridium communications satellite and a defunct Russian military spacecraft in 2009 caused...
