April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
...brightness signatures down to 18th magnitude. The US space surveillance network, the largest in the world, routinely ‘loses’ satellites all of the time, as the figure on page 63 illustrates. ASATs Although it would seem advisable to limit the ability...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
...reach. In February 2020, the company’s Mission Extension Vehicle-1 (MEV-1) docked with the Intelsat 901 communications satellite in order to relocate it to a new position over the Atlantic Ocean. The MEV is designed for a 15-year operational lifetime...
May 2022
Using space data to improve life on Earth
... computing industries. Since our applications would all be software-defined, it also meant we could continuously improve our satellites, even after they had been launched, through on-orbit software upgrades. Spire is vertically integrated, with both...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... the ground and track enemy missiles in flight. By late 2022, the agency wants to have several dozen satellites in orbit to demonstrate it can operate a proliferated constellation which can ‘talk’ to weapon systems. Space sustainability is one of the...
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...
