March 2018
Shifting lines and new horizons in Earth observation markets
... and this model can be very efficient. If EO data become a commodity with huge competition between data and satellite owners, there will be an opportunity for pure content aggregators or data brokers, without investment in proprietary data collection...
November 2018
Monitoring illegal rainforest deforestation
...That enables specification of optional spectral filters without any significant design changes on the optical system. A constellation of 16 satellites will assure a revisit time shorter than four days to any region of the equatorial belt with spatial...
July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
... in outer space and the whole world will benefit from it. US Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellite, courtesy AFSPC. About the author Gerard Brachet is a consultant on space policy issues and space applications, and...
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...
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...
