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...
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 ...
October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
...). Tongxin Jishu Shiyan Weixing (TJS) TJS is a series of Chinese satellites that have been deployed in geostationary orbit since 2015 and presented by Chinese authorities as telecommunications satellites. Specific features have not been published and...
April 2024
Unlocking the NewSpace economy through space-based solar power
... 40 percent of terrestrial solar and eight percent of offshore wind. It is also important to note that any single SPS in a geostationary orbit can see a quarter of the globe and in an instant can move its beam from one location to another...
November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
... famous article in Wireless World where he discussed the idea of spacing three satellites 120 degrees apart along a geostationary orbit to provide global coverage of the Earth’s surface, except for the polar regions. This helped to create the...
