October 2025
Europe’s unified vision for space governance and growth
... access to orbit. In parallel, ESA’s ARTES programme and IRIS² constellation aim to provide secure, high-throughput communication networks for both civil and defence applications. Perhaps the most ambitious proposal is the European Resilience from...
10 March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
... and industry. Within ARTES, ESA has started the development of 2 micro-satellites supporting the SAT-AIS network of satellites in cooperation with LUXSPACE and exact Earth Europe. In case of emergency… It is important to understand that satcoms also...
18 October 2019
Companies unite to reject SpaceX satellite plans
...big-named companies, each with plans to expand their own networks in space foresee a huge problem with Musk’s ambitious strategy.... the single-entry EPFD limits for its satellite network by dividing the network into multiple parts and asking the ITU to...
05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
... for satellite firms wanting to establish their global internet networks in space. Earlier in January, SpaceX launched 60 ... satellites planned as part of Jeff Bezos’s Project Kuiper network. This sheer volume of satellites expected to dominate our ...
03 August 2020
Mars was cold and icy, not warm and wet, new study says
... is the case, then it would challenge our understanding of early habitable conditions on the Red Planet, as creating valley networks from localised water beneath glaciers does not require a warm climate or vast amounts of flowing water shaping...
18 December 2024
EU to launch advanced constellation to counter Musk’s Starlink
...The SpaceRISE consortium includes three leading European satellite network operators - SES SA, Eutelsat SA and Hispasat... functions. More recent technological advances mean the new network of just under 300 high- and lower-powered satellites...
