September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
...technologies to track their fleets; mining and resource industries use satellite imagery for exploration, to plan infrastructure, and to conduct impact studies; and satellite communications play a key role in enabling improved connectivity for remote...
March 2021
Eyes on the prize
... are arising, including micro-launchers, miniaturisation, robotics, mega-constellations, and growing demand for satellite communications and Earth observation data from new AI-driven industries. If we choose to take it we have the opportunity...
June 2021
The next ‘unthinkable’ – global disruption from a solar storm
... purposes. Space weather events are of increasing concern and, with the ever growing use of technology relying on satellite communications, the risk of major outage or disruption to daily life must be taken seriously not just by space agencies but...
April 2024
ROOM at the 74th International Astronautical Congress
... and space education sectors. As a chartered physicist and chartered engineer, he has 40 years’ experience in satellite communications engineering and consultancy. He is also the author of six books (including The Cambridge Dictionary of Space...
September 2025
Why the global space sector needs urgent regulation
... UK is home to global leaders in Earth observation, satellite communications and climate modelling. But our unique value is not ... of science fiction or government astronauts but the new commun-ications superhighway of the new global economy That’s why...
28 January 2016
Historic Intelsat Satellite Launch Successful
.... Intelsat The Ariane 5, capable of placing two satellites weighing a combined 10,000 kilograms into geostationary transfer orbit... are at the beginning of a renaissance in satellite communications.” Intelsat 29e will operate from 310 degrees east...
