20 April 2016
Satellite company OneWeb announce ambitious plans for world-wide internet coverage
... outside the gates of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to build its 900 satellite constellation - that will ultimately see the company churning them out at 15 satellites a week – following a co-funding agreement with the state of Florida. Start...
January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
... by the phrase ‘Sustainable Earth & Space’, with two practical results of this policy being the Atlantic Satellite Constellation and monitoring space debris. Is Portugal looking to specialise in terms of the industry or technology? Our declared goal...
25 May 2016
Successful liftoff for Soyuz
...bring them to their final working orbit. “Today’s textbook launch has added two more satellites to what has become Europe’s largest satellite constellation,” commented Jan Woerner, Director General of ESA in a press conference yesterday. “It was made...
10 July 2020
Satellite for US Air Force successfully launches
L3Harris Technologies launched the latest in a demonstration series of end-to-end small satellites as part of a US Air Force constellation the company is responsible for developing. As the prime contractor for the firm fixed-price development space ...
December 2018
Prosperity in the stars
... data to the tiny spacecraft. Asgardia-1 is the beginning of a 25-year space programme that will continue with satellite constellations and end with a settlement on the Moon in the 2040s. Ashurbeyli explains: “We are not contemplating things that...
16 August 2017
DigitalGlobe signs DAP contract with Australian Department of Defence
...'s long-standing partner. The system will support tasking, reception and precision processing of imagery from the satellite constellation. Ground antenna systems that will enable direct tasking and downlink capabilities will be provided by VIASAT.
