22 April 2025
Axelspace on track to expand its EO microsatellite network
...’ space missions, and AxelGlobe, where it provides Earth observation data through its proprietary optical satellite constellation. “Leveraging our unique technology in microsatellite design, manufacturing, and in-orbit operations, we offer solutions...
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
... less power than far away in GEO; and the cost of launch is less. These benefits are compounded in satellite constellations. For example, SpaceX estimates that it will be able to provide global internet with moderate broadband coverage using...
February 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... is China’s first, self-developed, commercial remote sensing satellite system and is operated by the Chang Guang Satellite Technology Corporation (CGSTC). The Jilin-1 satellite constellation is the core project and will eventually be composed of 138...
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
...current Japanese space industry because there is too much risk in challenging the NewSpace economy with a small satellite constellation or recycling the first stage of a launch vehicle. Instead, the Vision targets niche technologies and services that...
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...
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...
