August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
... France and Azerbaijan claimed registration of the Airbus Defence and Space SPOT 7/ Azersky satellite before the ...Meridian satellite is “intended for assignments on behalf of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation”. Thus, it should not be ...
April 2021
Norway’s pioneering use of microsatellites
...launch in April 2021, the experimental payload is a naval Navigational Radar Detector (NRD) funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Defence and developed by FFI in collaboration with Kongsberg Seatex. The Navigation Radar Detector on NorSat-3 will be one...
December 2014
From the green economy to green space
...location was used for the Strategic Missile Forces of the USSR Ministry of Defence. Then, in the early 1990s, it was dismantled, before...the new cosmodrome will be far from green. In its defence, the cosmodrome project did not anticipate the use of new...
11 February 2019
Earth's magnetic north pole is on the move and its going fast
...Geographic Centre (DGC). The World Magnetic Model (WMM) is the standard model used by the the U.K. Ministry of Defence, the U.S. Department of Defense, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO...
July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
... that it can be more effective to procure a communications service rather than building a satellite, as in the case of the UK Ministry of Defence, which is using Paradigm Ltd as a service provider for its secure communications needs. But even in the...
October 2017
Saving geostationary orbit
... author Dr Stuart Eves has been working in the space industry since 2004, after 16 years with the UK Ministry of Defence. He has worked on a variety of satellite missions, including Skynet 4, Skynet 5 and TDS-1, and a highlight of his career to date...
