March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
... activity in orbit. Another powerful externality is the growing problem of radio frequency interference (RFI) as many satellite applications and services use a handful of common frequency bands. This has led to a growing competition for spectrum...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
...-d will be operated from the newly-developed National In-orbit Servicing Control Centre Facility based at the Satellite Applications Catapult in Harwell, UK. The Control Centre is being developed by Astroscale as a key part of the ground segment. The...
April 2020
Spaceport Cornwall – from protests to sustainability
... local academia and local industry on a joint project such as a community satellite: setting a sustainability challenge for a satellite application, designing and building that satellite, launching and tracking it from the same area and asking local...
11 August 2017
Satellite launch demand to grow tenfold in next 20 years
... large, expensive and durable satellites of the past. Even at the less optimistic baseline level our study shows that we can expect to see strong growth for the satellite, satellite launch and satellite applications market over the next twenty...
19 March 2021
World's first commercial space debris removal demo set for launch
... the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a Soyuz rocket operated by GK Launch Services and will be operated from the UK at the Satellite Applications Catapult at Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire. Among the technologies Astroscale hopes to test over the next few months...
March 2015
Space weather: the public & policy
... now critically relies. Key examples of these technologies include the power grid, civil aviation and many satellite applications. The threat posed to these technologies by severe space weather has been well documented in a range of studies, most...
