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...
18 October 2017
Europe’s first all-electric telecom satellite breaks record
...end,” explains ESA structural engineer Mario Toso. The Eurostar E3000 is a generic satellite model most commonly used for commercial and military communication satellites manufactured by Airbus and the Eutelsat 172B is the first of six Eurostar E3000...
25 January 2019
OneWeb targets mid-February for launch of first satellites
... Airbus with its first order to include the production of ultra-high performance communications satellites. These initial satellites were manufactured at the OneWeb Satellites facility on the Airbus Defence and Space Toulouse site in France. The site...
09 October 2019
The first satellite servicing spacecraft launches successfully
...-ever docking between two spacecraft near geostationary orbit early next year, so that it can reinvigorate the communications satellite; a life extension service that will cost Intelsat around $13 million per year for the next five...
16 October 2019
SpaceX files request to launch 30,000 more Starlink satellites
... constellation could seriously impede scientific work and that it would look into making future Starlink internet communications satellites less shiny to lower their reflectivity or "albedo," so they can’t be so easily spotted in space...
03 June 2022
Study assesses future of satellite network C-Band sub-frequencies
..., alongside the likely future supply and utilization of this spectrum by communication satellites; and the likelihood and feasibility of a migration to other frequencies of the satellite services currently using those bands. For the extended C-band...
