April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
... grandchildren will thank us. About the author Derek Webber, a former space systems engineer and executive in the satcoms business, is founder of Spaceport Associates, USA, and worked to establish the marketing and regulatory aspects of the private...
July 2019
Luxembourg’s space legislation
...space-related legislation continues. About the author Prof Dr Mahulena Hofmann is holder of the SES Chair in Space, SatCom and Media Law at the University of Luxembourg, where she serves as co-director of the Masters programme in Space, Communication...
October 2019
Space-based cybersecurity challenges for NATO
... NATO by the allies, or by commercial service providers. For instance, the UK, French and Italian governments provide advanced satcom capabilities. Thus, NATO has high levels of dependency on key allies and their willingness to provide space-sourced...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
.../Access: reduce cost and cycle time and launch on demand, high performance propulsion, enable reusable launch. SATCOM: integrate communications across the US Department of Defense to form the combat cloud, layer Positioning, Navigation and Timing...
January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
... types of downstream users can be clearly identified: Earth Observation (EO) users (including meteorological forecasting), GNSS users and satcom users. Education and capacity building are also pillars of the Portuguese space strategy, with the goal...
October 2023
The impact of weather on Ka-band frequencies
... it at all? To better understand the advantages that Ka-band brings, as well as the challenges its use presents to the satcom industry, we first need to consider how higher and lower frequencies differ, and how the technology used...
