September 2019
Extending the life of geostationary orbit satellites
Over 95 percent of the US$100 billion generated each year in commercial satellite revenues comes from satellites in geostationary orbit (GEO) and a single satellite can generate tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue. However, ...
June 2015
Promoting growth at geostationary orbit with a one-stop-shop
... any one particular slot is about 8 spacecraft. As of November 2014, there were more than 400 active satellites in geostationary orbit. The majority are communications satellites but there are some meteorological satellites there too. It is not just...
April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
... it again - this time through the eyes of another satellite that I had helped to build and put into geostationary orbit (GEO). As I wrote previously in ROOM, we at SpaceLogistics have been working on MEV-1 for more than 10 years, during which...
27 April 2018
Another milestone for the SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft
... be sent into space by U.S based International Launch Services (ILS), but once there, the drone needs to reach a geostationary orbit in order to service ageing satellites. To do this, the SPACE DRONE will employ four of ArianeGroup’s Arclight Radio...
29 June 2018
mu Space issues proposal request to build a satellite covering Asia-Pacific
...’s satellite with coverage spanning across Asia-Pacific. The high throughput satellite will be on a geostationary orbit (GEO) location at 50.5-degree East, an orbital slot secured on a recent agreement between mu Space and SES, the world’s leading...
May 2019
Wake-up call for debris creation in geostationary orbit
... ‘Hunter’ satellite that can capture debris and bring it under control. The European Space Agency’s RObotic GEostationary orbit Restorer (ROGER) looked at something similar, but it still assumed that graveyard disposal was a viable permanent solution...
