January 2019
Smallsat revolution and AI kick-start nascent EO big data market
... commercial contract comes up for renewal in a few years. With over 200 Earth observation satellites, Planet now operates the largest satellite constellation in history. Deimos, a subsidiary of UrtheCast, has expanded into analytics with its recent...
04 June 2020
Mega constellations and their impact on astronomy
...will be needed in order to complete the same type of observation. Even radio observatories will not go unaffected as satellite constellations beam internet connectivity to the remote corners of Earth via radio frequencies that are very close to those...
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...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
... to analyse and process data at scale and the next wave of Earth observation and Internet of Things (IoT) satellite constellations exist to provide more data. In fact, it is foreseeable that, within the next five years, more data will...
September 2023
Satellite manufacturing - building to size, speed and security
... proximity operations (RPO) mission around each other. LINUSS proved that small systems of CubeSats can upgrade satellite constellations and extend the design lifecycle of spacecraft in orbit. Terran Orbital has continued to shape the future of the...
October 2025
Satellite technology - from operational challenges to strategic opportunities
... requirements across various applications compounds these difficulties. SpaceX s Starlink is currently the largest satellite constellation by far. Starlink satellites are launched in batches, deploying dozens into orbit at a time. Communications...
