... era, commercial constellations are being deployed at an unprecedented rate by both start-ups and legacy actors: OneWeb, Starlink or Telesat for broadband; Kineis, Astrocast or Myriota for Internet of things (IoT); and Planet, Iceye or Capella for...
... generations can continue to be inspired by the starry firmament above. Unscheduled re-entry of a just launched SpaceX Starlink satellite over Puerto Rico in February 2022. Some 40 out of 49 satellites re-entered Earth’s atmosphere before reaching...
... of the Space Age was Plesetsk in Russia, its dominance ended only recently by the SpaceX Falcon 9 launching 50 Starlink satellites at a time from Cape Canaveral. Key elements From a functional point of view, the key elements required...
It is often said that “space is difficult”. Space is a challenging environment for which to design and build equipment and it is difficult to make sure it continues to operate once it is in space. Here, the author looks at the space development ...
... carrying capacity of a smaller number of constellations useable by all. The regulatory gap in space is real. With over 8000 Starlink satellites in orbit (as of July 2025) and thousands more planned, we risk turning low Earth orbit into a traffic...
... massive network of ground stations. The approach, long used for constellations such as Iridium and more recently by Starlink, brings the promise of faster data transfer, network redundancy and better resource management across satellite systems...