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...
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...
