30 May 2017
Plans for Europe's first commercial video satellite constellation
... locations - and predict future events with more certainty. The first R&D satellite will be used to test performance and confirm capabilities for the future constellation, including tasking, data downlinks to ground stations, and image quality and...
March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
...thereby reducing production times and cost of the beginning of active operations for a satellite constellation (when compared to large spacecraft constellations). Big companies miss out? Another reason the small spacecraft market is attractive to new...
April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... that might be gained with the use of artificial intelligence are still in the future. LEO satellite constellations are the truly global option. Depending on the type of constellation in place, they can cover the whole of planet Earth continuously...
October 2015
Down to Earth: how to deorbit satellites and save money
... life for up to six months, and reduce the costs of post-mission disposal, especially for large satellite constellations. At the moment it is not possible to recuperate objects in space, so a dedicated system must be integrated before launch...
March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
... twenty to thirty such satlets will be assembled in orbit. How to cooperate on Earth? In order to provide effective satellite constellation operations and receive enormous volumes of ERS data, the creation of a global network of ground-based stations...
01 September 2016
Mega-constellation deployment to be discussed at IAC 2016
... their plans to deploy large low-Earth orbit satellite constellations. Both constellations are to be deployed at high-inclination orbits. The OneWeb constellation will consist of 720 satellites operating at 1200 km altitude and in 18 different orbit...
