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...
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...
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...
