October 2024
International space law - the beginning of the end?
... and use of outer space without discrimination of any kind and on a basis of equality. SpaceX Starlink satellites before deployment. Starlink is the world’s first and largest satellite constellation using a low Earth orbit to deliver broadband...
13 May 2023
Inmarsat boss calls for urgent action to reduce space debris
... satellites performed more collision avoidance manoeuvres in a single month than in the entire first 2.5 years of Starlink deployment. Based on statistical models produced by the ESA space debris office, it is estimated that there are 36,500 ...
January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
... space debris. Interference issues In September ESA determined the safest option to avoid a potential collision with a SpaceX Starlink satellite was firing the thrusters on its Aeolus satellite. It was the first time for ESA that...
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
..., SpaceX estimates that it will be able to provide global internet with moderate broadband coverage using 800 of its Starlink satellites. The second batch of 60 satellites was launched in November 2019 and the company may put as many...
September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
... orbiting data network, to enable lunar orbiting satellite internet services (similar to Earth orbiting constellations such as Starlink), and communications between Earth and the Moon. At TerraMetric we foresee the same process then being repeated...
April 2021
Satellites in the cloud: data from orbit
... play. Amazon’s $10 billion commitment to its Kuiper constellation places it alongside other major non-GEOs, notably SpaceX (Starlink), OneWeb, SES (O3b mPOWER) and Telesat. Microsoft’s partnerships with SES and SpaceX further provides an entry...
