August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
... placed into orbit, and the trend is set to increase with companies proposing satellite constellations of up to 42,000 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). This rapid increase in the infrastructure surrounding our planet comes at a time of increased...
29 September 2020
NanoAvionics launches second satellite for Lacuna Space’s growing IoT satellite constellation
... and launch the first nanosatellite for Lacuna Space’s satellite system, I’m excited about this latest successful launch... provide a global internet-of-things service via a nanosatellite constellation in low Earth orbit (LEO) and autonomous sensors ...
April 2021
Making space part of the everyday European agenda
... as Director of Earth observation (EO) programmes what have been the key changes and developments? In 2016 the first satellite constellations were starting and new companies, particularly in Silicon Valley, were beginning to emerge into the EO domain...
18 April 2023
Spire launches customers’ Earth and debris monitoring satellites
... Services arm, with a $39 billion total addressable market, allows organisations to deploy and scale their own satellite constellation at maximum speed and reliably, all through a subscription model that eliminates the high upfront cost of building...
20 June 2023
Orbex teams with Arianespace
...both partners' services and it is expected that future collaboration would be particularly beneficial for customers planning small satellite constellations, providing a flexible solution for low Earth orbit (LEO) payloads. Light and heavy-lift launch...
April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
... the Earth in eight shells with different altitudes and inclinations. Each dot represents one satellite. Constellations Satellite constellations are groups of spacecraft of the same design, distributed among a series of orbits in order to cover the...
