October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
...launched into almost the same (type of) orbit [500 km SSO] as the four Tianhui 1 satellites. There is no Tianhui 3 satellite as of now. The Tianhui 4 satellite [2021] will, reportedly, observe the Earth in both the visible and infrared spectrum using...
February 2021
Satellites are key to unlocking a better-connected world
... fact that 5G backhaul capacity demand will consume four to five times the bandwidth of a 4G site, according to NSR. Satellite technology has already proved itself as being highly adaptable for mobile backhaul purposes. Connectivity delivered by new...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... tool to allow the exchange of information, we still need to develop additional sources for the information that is to be exchanged. A satellite that is not properly disposed of only becomes a new element of the debris picture While there may exist...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
... using foreign rockets, was accidentally omitted. Similarly, registration of the short-lived STS-44, SEDS-1 and STS-66 satellites were omitted by error. The registration information of 1991-1A initially included the USA as the territory of launch and...
January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
...is increasing This summer, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) also announced that it will be launching a constellation of 72 satellites, via private satellite company Commsat, to help the nation strengthen its IoT efforts over the next three years...
April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
... a whiteboard in the mid-2000s had finally resulted in an operating, docked ‘stack’ of spacecraft in GEO. The world’s first satellite servicing vehicle had proven itself in commercial use, opening up a whole new kind of privately funded space market...
