March 2026
The imagined sky – power, inequality and the future of space sustainability
...limited ability of developing nations to influence decisions that shape the future orbital environment. Licensing decisions for mega-constellations often reshape the shared low Earth orbit (LEO) environment with limited meaningful influence from many...
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...
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...
