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...
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...
