March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... technologies As early as 2007, Tamil rebels in Sri Lanka successfully breached the communication systems of a U.S.-built Intelsat satellite, and used it to broadcast radio and television signals. Also in 2007, the Chinese government demonstrated its...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... objects thus trapped are primarily defunct payloads, including the first commercial GEO communications satellite, Intelsat-1 F1 (‘Early Bird’) [4]. A slot at GEO is a valued, finite resource and there is competition between countries and companies...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
... of many launching States) the responsibility of registration is highly ambiguous. For example, during the privatisation of INTELSAT in 1998, the NSS 513 communications satellite was transferred to New Skies Satellites (Netherlands), while France and...
January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
... networks and cloud-based solutions. In the past, cyber attacks on satellites were unsuccessful but firms like Intelsat have signalled a dramatic jump in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack threats - attempts to make an online service...
April 2020
Replacing hydrazine fuel with a greener alternative
... credentials. But this technology comes with the risk of damaging potentially thousands of lives when hydrazine is used, as Intelsat experienced directly when it bought a ride on the Long March 3B. So, naturally, the space industry needs a better...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
... to this global pandemic Traditional satellite TV, consumer broadband and cellular backhaul (provided by companies such as Eutelsat, Intelsat, SES, Telesat and ViaSat) should remain steady or may even grow, because most of the world’s populations...
