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...
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...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
..., which is supported by the whole spectrum of existing space assets including the global navigation satellite system (GNSS), communication satellites, Earth observation systems, space probes and even CubeSats. Therefore, the operation of the whole...
November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
...provide global coverage of the Earth’s surface, except for the polar regions. This helped to create the communications satellite age. In the case of an Extraterrestrial Skyring, if the clumping was well managed, but in a 1:2 resonance orbit at 26,500...
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...
