November 2018
Purpose, promise and power – video from space
... will be held accountable based on the available geospatial evidence – including regular data from VHR satellite video constellations. In 2016 Earth-i was awarded the contract to supply the state of Queensland, Australia with very high resolution...
August 2018
Earth observation game-changer
...body and two elements deploying to either side to create a 3.25 m wide antenna array. Products from the ICEYE constellation will find application in urban planning, tracking port activity, sea ice monitoring, environmental monitoring and agricultural...
January 2019
Smallsat revolution and AI kick-start nascent EO big data market
... renewal in a few years. With over 200 Earth observation satellites, Planet now operates the largest satellite constellation in history. Deimos, a subsidiary of UrtheCast, has expanded into analytics with its recent acquisition of Geosys. The company...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
... has not yet been demonstrated. There are also potential negative impacts from the growth of these constellations. Such a large number of satellites in orbit increases the risk of collisions, resulting in a growth of space debris. Furthermore, they...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... far. The Space Shuttles had retired and NASA’s first follow-on programme to revive human spaceflight, the Constellation Program (CxP), had been cancelled due to a cost estimate of US$145 billion, an increase of nearly 50 percent to stay on schedule...
April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
... The number of satellites in orbit is expected to grow exponentially in the coming years with thousands of satellites from mega-constellations coming online. In fact, we are tracking about 200 companies planning to launch more than 100,000 satellites...
