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...
September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
... fashion and levied like taxes on our cyber infrastructure As we witness several satellite companies begin to deploy their proliferated LEO satellite constellations it is evident that there is a desire to make effective use of automation for...
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 ...
14 October 2019
First dedicated commercial smallsat mission to Mars unveiled
Sir Richard Branson’s small satellite launch company Virgin Orbit has teamed up with Poland-based satellite company SatRevolution and scientists and engineers from nearly a dozen Polish universities to establish a new consortium with an aim to ...
