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...
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...
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...
09 October 2019
The first satellite servicing spacecraft launches successfully
...-ever docking between two spacecraft near geostationary orbit early next year, so that it can reinvigorate the communications satellite; a life extension service that will cost Intelsat around $13 million per year for the next five...
16 October 2019
SpaceX files request to launch 30,000 more Starlink satellites
... constellation could seriously impede scientific work and that it would look into making future Starlink internet communications satellites less shiny to lower their reflectivity or "albedo," so they can’t be so easily spotted in space...
