31 May 2016
ABS put up for sale by Permira
..., a private-equity investor, has put the ABS (Asia Broadcast Satellite) satellite fleet operator up for sale. ABS is a Bermuda-based operator of communication satellites, with established telecommunications networks in Africa, Russia, Asia and the...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
...’s human space-flight programme. The current version of the GSLV can carry only two-tonne class communication satellites. Those with a higher mass have to be launched by Arianespace’s Ariane-5 rocket from the European spaceport of Kourou in French...
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...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
..., as well as relative stability as far as business is concerned. Reconnaissance satellites, military communication satellites, weather monitoring satellites, navigation satellites, as well as research units, both manned and unmanned spacecraft: these...
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...
