June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...work of the United Nations to keep weapons out of space Under reforming minister Takeo Kawamura, navigation and communications satellites were added, with military security identified as the top priority of the space programme. The Liberal Democratic...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... ballistic and hypersonic missiles. Next, the Space Development Agency’s plan to launch the Transport Layer or 126 communications satellites to support Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) capability, basically taking data from space and...
September 2025
Iran’s ascent - a space power in the shadow of sanctions
...to listen in on the Soviet space programme from the south shore of the Caspian Sea (in 1956), access to Intelsat communications satellites (in 1969) and Landsat remote sensing (in 1972). Iran was, like China, a scientific civilisation long before the...
10 March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
... the mainstay of the space industry: more than half of the space business involves building and launching communication satellites. Satcoms services and applications are the largest space sector and are a major driver of space technology...
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...
