March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... not only from foreign countries, but also include coordination, if not direction, from state-sponsored actors. Gateway antenna farm The coming months and years will see an increase in hacking attempts against satellites, underscoring...
March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
... (up to 250% over the previous generation) resulting in impressive savings in bandwidth costs. Within ARTES, STM Norway developed gateway and VSAT modems providing a low-cost answer for highly dynamic, demand-driven transmission capacity. Global...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... license makes the Houston Spaceport a reality and signals the beginning of work to make Ellington Field a true gateway to space. The location of a spaceport in a large metropolitan area (Houston is the United States’ fourth largest city) is somewhat...
October 2015
Growing space businesses in the UK: from incubation centres to public funding
... Far East, are seeing the UK as a good place to establish a business base and are setting up operational sites as gateways into the rest of Europe. Business growth for space companies inevitably translates to new technology development, whether...
August 2016
National legislation provides incentives for private business
... financial (including insurance) burdens. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo craft alongside the signature feature of Spaceport America, the Gateway to Space building, which serves as a hangar and training centre. The New Mexico spaceport has been...
April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... communications. In all three cases, internet connections are supplied over a small region by a local broadcasting router, gateway or antenna, which is eventually connected to the global network via fibre optic cables. However, such architecture...
