21 November 2023
Britain announces plan to launch EO satellite
... Open Cosmos, said: “The UK joining Portugal and Spain in the Atlantic Constellation is a major step forward in our national EO strategy. Building a shared satellite constellation is a very effective way of having high revisit diverse data over each...
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...
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...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... EO market as a new provider. Key initiatives Over the past decade, more than 33 projects for new EO satellite constellations have been announced. Although experts may remain sceptical of the capability of these projects to become operational, some...
