November 2017
Advancing maritime intelligence with real-time satellite AIS
... of shipping activity is precisely their business. Operating with its own first-generation constellation of low-Earth orbiting (LEO) satellites, exactEarth can detect the signals from more than 250,000 active vessels across the...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... market will be realised, first in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) and then medium and low Earth orbit (LEO), through logistics. Those space-based ‘cars’, forever on the road, that have been creating new businesses...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
... impacts of radiation. Space radiation is the number one risk to astronaut health on missions beyond low Earth orbit (LEO) and, with a host of long term and deep space missions being actively planned and developed, it is becoming...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
...the trend is set to increase with companies proposing satellite constellations of up to 42,000 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). This rapid increase in the infrastructure surrounding our planet comes at a time of increased reliance on the services...
September 2023
Address from the Head of Nation
On 24 June 2023 (7 Leo 0007 in the Asgardia calendar) Dr Igor Ashurbeyli welcomed newly elected Members of Parliament at the first digital sitting of ...
September 2023
Getting a grip on space sustainability and space debris
... we use, particularly the areas around Earth, are actually quite constrained and fragile. Low Earth orbits (LEO), where we find Earth observation satellites and the new broadband range of satellites, is quite a small shell of geo...
