January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
... or around 600 billion smart meters. Incumbent SatCom operators like Iridium, which finished replacing its original constellation by sending 75 new Iridium satellites into space this year, have been providing connectivity services for decades...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
...stage of investment, which is centred around platforms - the constellations in space that collect and disseminate data. We expect that ...Spire Global, which has a hundred-satellite constellation for weather observations that currently produces five-day...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
...space assets, in some areas. As an example, China recently completed deployment of its third-generation BeiDou satellite navigation constellation. While this will need to be replenished, that will occur towards the end of the decade. Similar dynamics...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... technologies and will see a significant increase in capacity and modalities in the coming year. First, Maxar’s Legion constellation will be able to deliver high resolution optical imagery with revisit rates up to 15 times per day for monitoring...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
...ambitions for the 2020s (continued CSS habitation, at least three uncrewed lunar missions, a global LEO broadband constellation, etc), it is clear that there will be ample opportunities for other countries to collaborate. But if China builds it, will...
March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
... on stable commercial viability and survive without an “anchor,” i.e. a government client. Ambitions reborn But today, ambitious space constellation projects are enjoying a rebirth right before our very eyes. A low-orbit race for the creation...
