January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
... investments in new capabilities. All of these are beginning to yield to the compelling promise of space robotics. When the Intelsat New Dawn satellite was unable to deploy its C-band reflector antenna in 2011 due to the billowing of an insulating...
20 April 2016
Satellite company OneWeb announce ambitious plans for world-wide internet coverage
...from big players that include satellite fleet operator Intelsat, Bharti Enterprises, Qualcomm, Coca-Cola and ... CEO of OneWeb Satellites; David McGlade, executive chairman of Intelsat; Steve Crisafulli, Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives....
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...
