20 June 2023
Orbex teams with Arianespace
... (LEO) payloads. Light and heavy-lift launch vehicles could jointly support customers in deploying their initial constellations into the required orbital planes, provide precise injections of a smaller number of satellites through dedicated missions...
10 July 2020
Satellite for US Air Force successfully launches
L3Harris Technologies launched the latest in a demonstration series of end-to-end small satellites as part of a US Air Force constellation the company is responsible for developing. As the prime contractor for the firm fixed-price development space ...
January 2023
Clearing space junk from orbit
... on Earth enabling connectivity even in remote places. This need for ubiquitous connectivity drives the development of large constellations of satellites for broadband internet and the Internet of Things. This trend has led to a more than tenfold...
March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
... decreasing, although in all fairness it should be noted that there hasn’t been a radical drop in the overall cost of constellation support due to the short active performance time of each spacecraft. Thirdly, a large amount of spacecraft could serve...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
... represents a material departure from the established norms and behaviours of the space industry. Generally, each satellite constellation builds a unique ground station network to serve the specific needs of its mission. The high cost of establishing...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... massive use of high-performance commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies has already proved the feasibility of constellations of several tens of cubesats weighing around 5 kg and costing a few thousands of dollars per unit. But NewSpace is not...
