20 April 2016
Satellite company OneWeb announce ambitious plans for world-wide internet coverage
... in development and could fly by the end of 2017, was awarded 39 launches by OneWeb to replenish the company’s satellite fleet as old satellites stop working. Rather than launching from a traditional launch pad at a spaceport, LauncherOne will haul...
August 2016
Smallsat launch strategy
..., and that attitude of nimbleness and innovation permeated into all aspects of the company, especially our launch strategy. Planet is a commercial satellite company now headquartered in San Francisco, California, that takes a fundamentally different...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... of Landsat 1 in 1972 and the failed attempt at privatisation of the Landsat programme by EOSAT (Earth Observation Satellite Company), different types of Earth observation (EO) models have been developed and several disruptive events have shaped...
15 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest, July 8-15
... won a three-launch contract from remote sensing satellite company Planet, formerly Planet Labs. As per this contract, three of Planet's Dove satellites will be launched on Electron vehicles. A Dove satellite is a three-unit cubesat and weighs about...
29 June 2018
mu Space issues proposal request to build a satellite covering Asia-Pacific
...release of a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a manufacturer to build the company’s satellite with coverage spanning across Asia-Pacific. The high throughput satellite will be on a geostationary orbit (GEO) location at 50.5-degree East, an orbital slot...
30 May 2017
Plans for Europe's first commercial video satellite constellation
A British satellite company has announced its intention to launch a commercial constellation of Earth observation satellites offering both video and imagery - and the first in the world to provide full-colour video footage. A ...
