18 June 2019
Israeli space tech firm hiSky expands to the UK
... hiSky has established a UK limited company (hiSkySat Ltd) based in London and with an R&D centre at Harwell to develop a satellite communications network management system (NMS) and operation centre. The UK Space Agency (UKSA) provided £9 million...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
...athome and abroad, can be considerable Smaller space players, such as Indonesia, Taiwan and Singapore, are pursuing satellite communications technology and other space applications with direct economic benefits, and appear less focused on science and...
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...
June 2015
Watching over alpine explorers
... or totally missing. To work around this, Sarontar uses satellite communication when terrestrial networks are unavailable. The rescuer is equipped with a handheld satellite modem. It communicates with the smartphone via Bluetooth and switches between...
August 2016
Are the days of innovation in global space over - or just beginning?
... markets and the world trading system all rely on global positioning technology and satellite communication to function. Of note, although many satellite launch companies are privately owned, or of public-private partnership status, the majority...
