November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... is typically the third most expensive aspect of a commercial geostationary mission after the satellite itself and the launch services. Finally, as a direct result of the cost aspects and the fact that there are relatively few...
10 June 2016
Intelsat 31 Telecommunications Satellite Successfully Placed in Orbit
... the Proton booster is 42.3 m (138.8 ft). International Launch Services vice president for operations John Palme said that the latest Proton...stage should not reduce the satellite's service life. International Launch Services is based in Virginia, USA,...
December 2014
Skolkovo and a new breed of Russian space startups
... (ERS) operator; Sovzond and Skaneks, providing ground-based ERS services; NIS GLONASS, a navigational services and equipment provider; plus a few companies offering launch services, such as Kosmotras. In just over three years, the situation has...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... from countries such as the Soviet Union. Starting in the 1990s, however, China began to provide launch services to foreign customers. Services were provided through China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC), a subsidiary of the China Aerospace...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... in February 2018 which became the first Chinese private launch provider to succeed in its first three launches to orbit this year. It is now building its Ceres rocket to offer rapid launch service for single payloads, while its Pallas rocket...
27 April 2018
Another milestone for the SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft
... that the SPACE DRONE™ will be sent into space by U.S based International Launch Services (ILS), but once there, the drone needs to reach a geostationary orbit in order to service ageing satellites. To do this, the SPACE DRONE will employ four...
