April 2018
Servicing the space economy
...new market will be realised, first in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) and then medium and low Earth orbit (LEO), through ... greater revenue. In the first phase of this new GEO economy, small satellites will provide the logistics required. Creating...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
...best possible outcome? Key issues and dangers Satellites in GEO operate in a harsh environment (including being in a... preclude making repairs to orbiting systems. But a slot at GEO is a valued, finite resource, and there is competition between...
June 2014
Understanding Earth: GEO and the SDG environmental agenda
...in Earth observation data acquisition and information generation activities. To date, the following global initiatives developed within GEO’s framework include, the Water Cycle Coordination Initiative (WCCI), Oceans and Society (The Blue Planet), the...
October 2017
Saving geostationary orbit
... industry. One is that we probably already have some challenging, rapidly-spinning objects to deal with in the vicinity of GEO, and a second is that the current policy of retiring satellites to a super-synchronous graveyard orbit, and then abandoning...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... original plan was to have nine instruments weighing 25 kg in total, if the rocket had been the three-stage Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), which is capable of carrying more weight. However, there was some uncertainty...
January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
For a successful economic ecosystem to thrive, two things must be present - supply and demand. Supply in a deep space economy is a complicated input due to the extreme costs of bringing economic inputs into space and the lack of existing in-space ...
