May 2024
Could ICAO be a NewSpace regulator?
...that it is not compulsory for countries to register satellites on launching. The goal of the UK Space Agency’s Clearing of the LEO Environment with Active Removal (CLEAR) Mission is to remove at least two UK-registered derelict objects from low Earth...
September 2024
Hypersonics and the route to orbit
...an altitude of 100 km at speeds in excess of Mach 5 and, from this altitude, to deploy a transfer vehicle designed to carry payloads to LEO. “HELLO-2 takes this a step further”, said Dass, “with the capability to deliver payloads to the lunar surface...
May 2019
Wake-up call for debris creation in geostationary orbit
...available information that everyone is agreed on: in low Earth orbit (LEO) we have a problem. At the 7th European Conference on Space...40 year prevarication that characterised our response to the LEO threat. GEO debris modelling work by Anderson and ...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... (GEO) satellites. A potential scenario, therefore, is that as the constellation satellites orbit the planet in low Earth orbit (LEO), they fly through the beam of a GEO satellite, transmitting on the same frequency, and cause interference to users...
September 2019
Expectations in a connected world
..., Telesat and OneWeb investing heavily in low Earth orbit (LEO) mega-constellations, it’s clear that satellite has the potential ... consumers wherever they are in the world. Satellites in LEO promise to deliver high capacity, low latency and broad ...
September 2016
Small launcher market survey
... listing in the table is arranged from the smallest lift capability up to boosters that can lift 2500 kg to low LEO. As represented in Figure 4, of the 38 entries, 13 are currently operational and 25 are currently under development, aligning with the...
