April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
..., all these satellites will need to be launched. Launch providers, already suffering from a downturn in the traditional geostationary orbit (GEO) launch market, will be relieved. The world’s main commercial launch providers are hoping to make up for...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
...km above the planet). But that’s where it stopped. As of today, no one has found a way to make space beyond geostationary orbit ‘pay’. In a bid to remove this logjam by kick-starting commercial initiatives intended to carry our economic activity even...
18 October 2019
Companies unite to reject SpaceX satellite plans
... Commission defer consideration of SpaceX’s intention to modify its license for a Ku/Ka-band non-geostationary orbit as “SES entities operate both NGSO and geostationary orbit (“GSO”) FSS networks that use these bands.” Not only is that a problem say...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
... attack display with attack sequencing marks. Escalation control There is a vast region of space between geostationary orbit and the Moon that is not routinely tracked by terrestrial space surveillance sensors Due to the global nature of ...
29 March 2017
SpaceX set to reuse rocket for the first time on Friday
..., which was initially planned for tomorrow (Thursday 30th March), is set to deliver a SES 10 satellite into a geostationary orbit to provide satellite coverage to areas of Latin America. Scheduled to depart from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...
14 November 2019
Met services prepare for next-generation satellite systems
... fully deployed, the MTG spacecraft constellation will consist of three satellites - two imagers and one sounder - in a geostationary orbit 36,000km above Earth.
