October 2020
Pandemic impacts - the state of the ground segment
... of antennas is capable of supporting many operators and missions simultaneously, while improving resiliency, enhancing efficiency and reducing costs for all users. There are many benefits with a multi-mission ground segment model, including massive...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... to the “evolvable Mars campaign”. NASA agreed to update SLS’s cost estimate and, as a result, moved the launch readiness date to...argued, NASA should have reduced its estimates accordingly. Comparing the reduced costs against the unreduced estimates...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
...planning and banking to agriculture and fishing. A frugal approach and India’s organisation model provides lessons in reducing costs - yet, India could further mitigate its technological and economic challenges by extending its cooperation with other...
January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
...the issue of radio interference. Smaller antennas for example have big upsides, including reduced costs - but there are also downsides. As a side effect of reducing antenna size, for a fixed frequency, the antenna directivity suffers, because smaller...
October 2015
Green cosmonautics: an ideal to strive for
...spacecraft – the main engine has wings to fly home Cost efficiency would also be improved by reusable and more efficient...the orbit? Clean up after yourself!” It will allow us to reduce collision risks and improve overall safety, both in orbit and on ...
May 2018
Delivering farming solutions with satellite-powered data analytics
...of the analytics platform is its possible application in reducing cost and time in the estimation of agricultural produce. ...the number of samples for CCEs can be optimised to reduce cost and time. Satellite data, integrated with ground and financial...
