September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
... data links more difficult, whilst ensuring that specific telecommands and other inside information about the satellite bus (the infrastructure of the spacecraft) is obscured. Big picture The space community collectively requires a fundamental change...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
...as only a company of their size can do - on the need for improved ground infrastructure and data services for satellite operators. They, in partnership with Lockheed Martin, announced a service aimed at combining the power of space communications and...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... of entrepreneurs have seen a massive opportunity in space and are competing head on with the manufacturers of the large satellites In parallel, a number of self-made billionaires are using their own wealth to focus explicitly on the space launch...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... would wish to preserve as important parts of our space heritage in some kind of space museum? Save our satellites Scientific satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have contributed enormously to our understanding of the universe and are...
May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
... Iranian President Ahmadinejad later stated that the launch had failed. In fact, Iran had already launched a satellite (Sina-1) using a Russian vehicle launched from Plesetsk on 27 October 2005. Much of Iran’s development of ballistic missiles and...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
.... The IAU statement identifies this threat to radio astronomy from aggregate radio signals emitted from the satellite constellations, stating that “recent advances in radio astronomy, such as producing the first image of a black hole or understanding...
