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...
June 2018
Striding through space
..., and three mission specialists, Ronald McNair, Robert Stewart and McCandless. The first task of deploying two communications satellites was performed properly, although the boost motors to transfer them to their operational orbits both malfunctioned...
October 2019
Reusability is key to expanding future space launch business
...and went from an annual geostationary launch rate in the high twenties to a market in the single digits. As most communications satellites have a typical design life of about 15 years, it is probably no coincidence we are seeing that cycle come round...
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...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... (CLA), and for running the Barreira do Inferno Launch Center. Brazil’s Geostationary and Defense and Strategic Communications Satellite (SGDC) was launched from the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana in 2017 for Brazilian government civil...
