April 2017
Mega-challenges for mega-constellations
... realistic assumption of 60 percent PMD success rate for the background space traffic. When combined with a mega-constellation adhering to the guidelines with 90 percent success (i.e. the inverted scenario), the simulation showed that the background...
24 October 2018
New constellations for Fermi's 10th birthday
... Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have mapped out 21 new constellations from gamma-ray sources based on characters and famous objects ...-ray sources could one day end up as another set of constellations, but for now if you want to see, amongst others,...
24 May 2019
SpaceX launches first 60 satellites of its Starlink mega-constellation
...so that he can complete his internet-from-space mega constellation. All in all SpaceX plans to deploy nearly 12,000...many as 1,140 satellites yet to be deployed in the Starlink constellation, one could argue that the skies above our planet are already ...
13 September 2017
New constellation to reshape Earth observation market
... to be equipped with this technology. “With Pléiades Neo, we will have the most advanced high-resolution constellation on offer for both commercial and secured governmental applications with another four satellites added to our existing ...
08 July 2019
Amazon seeks approval for 3,236 broadband satellite constellation
... of 590 kilometres, 610 kilometres, and 630 kilometres – much closer to Earth than some of the other broadband constellations currently under development. The Kuiper System's fleet of 3,236 Ka-band satellites are designed to maximise spectrum reuse...
01 September 2016
Mega-constellation deployment to be discussed at IAC 2016
... at 1200 km altitude and in 18 different orbit planes and will provide global high-speed communication. The SpaceX constellation will consist of 4000 satellites, operate at 1100 km altitude and provide high-speed internet communication. The IAC...
