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...
October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... to detect, identify and locate radar and telecommunication emissions, particularly those from warships. This Jianbing constellation likely performs this function by locating them using a technique in which the time difference of arrival of emitted...
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...
October 2015
Down to Earth: how to deorbit satellites and save money
... assigned to operators, a satellite has to be removed in order to make way for the newer generation. In the case of large constellations in low and medium Earth orbit, a dead satellite drifting along can jeopardize the functioning of the entire...
September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
... due to debris strike, this implies one strike in 1,000 causes a serious anomaly. If we were to apply that rate to a constellation of 1,000 satellites in a sun-synchronous orbit, each of one square metre body cross-section, this implies that...
January 2019
Is the NewSpace bubble about to burst?
...deliver high speed broadband internet via a network of satellites. SpaceX has also submitted a redesign of the Starlink constellation to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) which would involve launching the satellites into a lower orbit - and...
