October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
...using optical, radar, gravity and magnetism sensors to obtain geo-information about the Earth. The programme provides for the ... of applications. All TJS satellites are in geostationary orbit (GEO). Some appear to be built for missile warning (built ...
10 March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
...competitiveness across all market segments. The ARTES Small GEO programme addresses the market segment below 3 tonnes...while Alphabus addresses the high-end segment above 6 tonnes. Small GEO is being developed in a PPP within ARTES by an industrial ...
July 2014
Beware the situation: how JSpOC tracks space debris
... will stay in space for decades, and in geosynchronous orbits (GEOs) objects could remain in space for hundreds of years or more.... We warn of conjunctions that are under 5km miss distance at GEO or less than 1km miss distance in LEO, and we do this...
March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
...year implementation plan and establishment of the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) were agreed upon at EOS III in Brussels in May 2005. Japan announced at GEO Plenary that it would contribute to GEOSS mainly in the three Societal...
June 2015
Promoting growth at geostationary orbit with a one-stop-shop
...of the work on Galileo, we came back to developing the geo platform. Working with help from the European Space Agency’s Advanced ... we could use to try to secure a customer for that first geo platform. If all goes to plan, the first customer will be ...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... satellite systems, either in geostationary Earth orbit (GEO), where most telecommunications satellites are located, or ...functional satellites delivering a service, of which 450 are operating in GEO. Most of the rest are either in LEO or in the...
