31 May 2016
ABS put up for sale by Permira
..., a private-equity investor, has put the ABS (Asia Broadcast Satellite) satellite fleet operator up for sale. ABS is a Bermuda-based operator of communication satellites, with established telecommunications networks in Africa, Russia, Asia and the...
December 2014
Skolkovo and a new breed of Russian space startups
... of state-run enterprises. The few private astronautics companies that did exist included Gazprom Space Systems, a communications satellite and Earth remote sensing (ERS) operator; Sovzond and Skaneks, providing ground-based ERS services; NIS...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... of age when society worshipped gigantism Contrast this with the two-year schedule typical for a geostationary communications satellite, or perhaps five or more years for space research missions. Of course, the CubeSats do not deliver the results...
November 2017
Geospatial maritime solutions
...oceans for customers such as DigitalGlobe. Key communications capabilities built by Harris are on Inmarsat communications satellites and our navigation payloads on Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites help you find your way. Shipping signatures...
February 2020
‘Witches brew’ of a subordinate space corps
... and would need to be paid for. So, the services would receive weather satellite bills, missile launch detection bills, communications satellite bills, GPS satellite bills, imagery satellite bills, etc, from the Air Force. The chaos that would have...
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...
