April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
...access is problematic due to both technical and physical challenges. Latency is significant and there would be no coverage in polar regions. At 36,000 km altitude, it takes the information about 200 milliseconds to be transmitted from the user to the...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
... out in the Clarke geostationary arc, provide near instantaneous warning of severe storms and weather patterns. In lower, polar Sun-synchronous orbits of some 500-800 km we have hundreds of moderate and high resolution satellites constantly mapping...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
...on the military consequences, the additional pieces of space debris caused by the destruction of the Fengyun FY-1C polar orbit satellite at such a strategically important altitude raised significant concerns. Computer graphic depicting a future solar...
June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
... was a puzzling discovery because Mercury was thought to be too small and rotating to have one. Mercury’s north polar region, coloured by the maximum biannual surface temperature, which ranges from >400K (red) to 50K (purple). Mariner...
September 2017
India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship
..., Integration and Testing (AIT) consortium of industries to produce navigation satellites and a Joint Venture (JV) for producing the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). These strategies are possibly the next step in closing the gap between...
October 2017
Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?
... monitoring, mining, outback communication, finance, border control and the surf report. Australia needs its own polar orbiting satellites. A space agency serves several roles. It creates coherence across a complex sector by coordinating and...
