April 2020
Spaceport Cornwall – from protests to sustainability
... industry cannot simply sit back and continue with the status quo. General public concerns over mega-constellations, new commercial spaceports being proposed in rural areas and space debris are all of increasing interest to the...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
... do not have strong interdependencies, but the situation is changing swiftly with the appearance of the satellite mega-constellations. Open access to data collected in the Sentinel missions - notably Sentinel 1 (pictured) and Sentinel 2 – has changed...
March 2021
Eyes on the prize
... the UK cannot focus on incremental gains. Disruptive opportunities are arising, including micro-launchers, miniaturisation, robotics, mega-constellations, and growing demand for satellite communications and Earth observation data from new AI-driven...
January 2023
Space sustainability imperative
... Fragile Space took me to the top of volcanoes in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, clean rooms across Europe, mega-constellation launches on both coasts of the United States within a few days of each other, and a farm in England. It also...
23 September 2016
ESA launch CleanSat initiative to clean up space debris
With a growing population of satellites competing for space around Earth’s orbit and with the possibility of mega-constellations adding hundreds if not thousands more satellites to the seemingly already saturated skies, the European Space Agency is ...
24 April 2017
Call for international help with space debris
... said Holger Krag, Head of ESA’s Space Debris Office and conference chair. And, with the rise of mega constellations containing thousands of satellites that will be deployed into a low orbit, this problem will only be exacerbated by an unsustainably...
