March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... satellites working in concert, the companies mitigate the risk (and cost) of any singular satellite failure. Small sats still need launchers Serial entrepreneur Richard Branson’s venture Virgin Galactic is another example of a commercial foray into...
March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
... with different polarisation. Frequencies can be used even more effectively by using multi-beam antennas. For example, a Ka-Sat satellite builds up to 82 rays and one frequency can be reused up to 20 times. With further technological advances it can...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
... makes them dependant on the primary payload’s progress, or lack of. Failure not to be feared At the very popular Small Sat Conference organised last summer in Logan, UT, USA, Steve Jurvetson (The “J” from the venture capital firm DFJ4...
March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
... and increasing the number of players on the market will increase the number of investors interested in space business. PW-Sat, billed as the first Polish student satellite Currently, the most common way for investors to “exit” investing...
October 2015
Growing space businesses in the UK: from incubation centres to public funding
... designing and manufacturing space-borne instruments. It has the capability to deploy a full range of spacecraft, from ‘cube-sats’ and other small-satellites2 to the largest multi-mission telecommunications spacecraft. Indeed, the UK has a strong and...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
... Tatiana-1 (32kg) and Tatiana-2 (90kg) while the Ufa State Aviation and Technology University launched UGATU-SAT (40kg). The Moscow Aviation Institute launched MAK-1 and MAK-2 (just 20kg each) and created, together...
