October 2025
Software defined satellites and the ground segment
... and management systems. Rigidity in both space and ground segments has, to a certain degree, constrained satellite communications. Unfortunately, the process of virtualising the ground segment is far from straightforward. However, if ground...
10 March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
... with MediaMobil/SASS@Sea Development of the world’s poorest countries is empowered through access to communications technology via satellite communications. Through satcoms, developing nations have immediate access to some of the world’s most...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
...it is in orbit. For example, there are four operating systems for personal satellite communications: Iridium, GlobalStar, Thuraya and Orbcomm. This equals 140 satellites in orbit at an investment cost of $15bn. There are about one million subscribers...
July 2014
View from Inmarsat: the search for MH370 and using satellites for safety
... to Beijing and for reasons we may never know headed south. Inmarsat is a long-standing provider of satellite communication (satcom) safety services supporting aircraft on a worldwide basis. The company has over 30 years’ experience in designing...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
... on solar sail technologies. The gas people didn’t take an interest in the mirror, but they were interested in satellite communication. In the end, part of the Kosmicheskaya Regata group, with Nikolay Sevastyanov at the helm, began developing the...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... ten provisions from the American Space Renaissance act, including: New requirements for conducting the impending Satellite Communications Analysis of Alternatives to ensure the DoD fully explores commercial SATCOM capabilities and service models...
