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,...
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 ...
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...
30 May 2017
Plans for Europe's first commercial video satellite constellation
... test performance and confirm capabilities for the future constellation, including tasking, data downlinks to ground stations... US counterparts. “We have designed and developed our constellation for organisations that need to strike a different balance...
April 2018
Transforming the launch market for small spacecraft
...true market forces driving the launch providers. Consequently, as the investment and number of proposed small spacecraft constellations has increased, a number of new launch vehicle initiatives have been created specifically to serve new space launch...
