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...
18 June 2019
Israeli space tech firm hiSky expands to the UK
...-tech jobs in London and Oxfordshire. The Israeli company 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...
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...
January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
... 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. The focus...
October 2019
Reusability is key to expanding future space launch business
...plans. Ultimately, Blue Origin is a space transportation company; we are, at our heart, a space propulsion company. We are not a constellation satellite company, though obviously launching satellites and payloads is really important to us. We believe...
