October 2015
Down to Earth: how to deorbit satellites and save money
..., cluttering Low Earth Orbit What’s more, the industry is continuously evolving. Current trends such as the launch of mega constellations and CubeSats can change the entire industry in a matter of years, making any prediction uncertain and introduce...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
... themselves for future growth. Before filing for bankruptcy, Londonregistered OneWeb was in the process of building a mega-constellation of 648 satellites in order to achieve full global coverage by the end of 2021. Earth observation To some extent...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
..., a UK-based pioneer in the field of smallsats, has described several future constellation applications that will continue to fuel this trend as follows: Mega-constellations, such as those announced for internet-from-space by Boeing (1396 satellites...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
... in small satellite payloads being launched into low Earth orbit (LEO). At the forefront of this is the mega constellation revolution, whereby large, expensive satellites are replaced with fleets of easily replaced smallsats. A private plane on the...
04 September 2019
A near miss as ESA and SpaceX satellites nearly collide
.... The perpetrator was Starlink44 – one of the first 60 satellites recently launched by SpaceX as part of its 12 000 strong mega constellation. The rest SpaceX hopes to have in place by mid-2020. The potential ‘conjunction’ was expected to occur...
17 January 2025
Investigation launched after SpaceX Spaceship 7 explodes
... lucrative private space launch business. New Glenn is part of the deployment plan for Amazon’s Project Kuiper mega constellation, with 12 launches booked back in 2022. Other customers waiting in the wings include NASA, Telesat’s Lightspeed...
