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...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
..., which is supported by the whole spectrum of existing space assets including the global navigation satellite system (GNSS), communication satellites, Earth observation systems, space probes and even CubeSats. Therefore, the operation of the whole...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... that the first space-related insurance policy was written as long ago as 1965 - for the Intelsat I communications satellite (colloquially known as ‘Early Bird’) launched in April of that year. Although it covered only third-party liability and...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
... in which they reside, but there are also significant potential societal benefits to providing low-cost communications, satellite broadband and other services to less-well developed regions that ground-based infrastructure cannot support. However...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... have cost some two percent of GDP). The global satcom industry has also seen a downturn in GEO communications satellite orders since the mid-2010s, partly due to fewer countries purchasing so-called ‘PrideSats’. Indeed, the most...
