February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
...The key letter in the acronym is the ‘L’ for low: in close proximity to Earth, communication satellites can host low latency financial transactions and internet; observation satellites can capture high resolution images with a fast revisit rate; data...
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...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... (CLA), and for running the Barreira do Inferno Launch Center. Brazil’s Geostationary and Defense and Strategic Communications Satellite (SGDC) was launched from the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana in 2017 for Brazilian government civil...
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...
