September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
...-led initiative is the Satellite Orbital Safety Best Practices reference guide developed jointly by the three large constellation operators, Iridium, OneWeb and SpaceX in September 2022. ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and executives of Airbus...
July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
... public funds, with no direct connection to the businesses that will ultimately benefit from the use of these constellations. Making space data accessible Satellite imagery of the Earth is becoming ever more sophisticated. A wide variety of data...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
..., which plans to offer maritime location-based and weather data product services from its own CubeSat constellation. As in any commercial marketplace, a robust ecosystem has emerged. The deployer releasing the CubeSats in orbit Companies like...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... to both French and European programmes. Most of the launches have been dedicated to the deployment of the Galileo constellation, the Earth observation satellites Sentinel (European Union, ESA) and Pleiades (CNES), as well as the scientific Gaia...
February 2018
Our space future lies in innovation
.... Some people believe that geostationary satellites are perhaps becoming obsolete because of future large constellations. But the future of constellations it is not yet proven and geostationary satellites are doing pretty well. So, it means that...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
... might become affordable. Small deorbit robots could also be vital for the many proposed LEO mega-constellations to comply with deorbit guidelines. The sheer number of these satellites is projected to be a significant contributor to the debris...
