26 September 2017
Rocket Lab to fly Planet and Spire satellites on second test flight
... for this inaugural deployment attempt." Spire, the world's first commercial weather satellite constellation, adds two satellites to an existing constellation of Lemur-2 satellites that covers every location on earth over 100 times per day. The...
19 September 2019
Annual Global MilSatCom conference and exhibition returns to London
... Technology focus day on the 4th November at St James’ Court, London, which will explore developments in LEO small satellite constellations and how we can exploit these networks to deliver more capability on the ground. The focus day will...
October 2025
What future for UK human spaceflight?
... reached orbit as a British citizen. ESA’s Moonlight programme, officially announced in 2024, is a landmark initiative to create a satellite constellation orbiting the Moon for future comms and navigation services. Change began with national lobbying...
September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
... generation of launchers will enter service, reducing the cost of access to space, at the same time as large satellite constellations look set to dominate applications. These trends are likely to influence space engineering in turn: the old emphasis...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... both natural hazards and man-made threats such as space debris. Stuart has an MSc in Astrophysics, a PhD in satellite constellation design, and has been a fellow of both the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society...
31 May 2016
ABS put up for sale by Permira
... on high-throughput capacity and data-centric low-orbiting satellite constellations, whose business viability he has doubted. “We are not putting enough focus on what satellites cannot be beat at, which is video distribution, which is still growing...
