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...
26 August 2020
LEO constellations will "fundamentally change" astronomy, warns new report
... 1 (Satcon1) workshop held virtually on 29 June–2 July 2020. Using computer simulations to examine how satellite constellations such as those by SpaceX could affect the operations of Earth-based observatories once fully deployed, the workshop...
November 2018
Monitoring illegal rainforest deforestation
... we consider a GSD of 1.5 m so that a road 2 m wide will have a detection confidence higher than 50 percent. Satellite constellation coverage illustration. Operational system Ninety-five percent of deforestation occurs at 5.5 km from roads and about...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
...is a huge opportunity for the UK to integrate ‘downstream’ business demand with rapid ‘upstream’ manufacturing supply of satellite constellations Lowering the cost of access to space is a key challenge that the spaceports will fulfil in part. However...
16 October 2019
SpaceX files request to launch 30,000 more Starlink satellites
... in-progress OneWeb and Globalstar internet networks along with Amazon's recently announced Project Kuiper satellite internet. “Satellite constellations can pose a significant or debilitating threat to important existing and and future astronomical...
07 October 2020
Chinese company seeks approval to launch nearly 13,000 satellites
... of the initiative. China are already planning three low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations; Hongyun, which plans 864 satellites; Hongyan, which plans around 320 satellites, and Galaxy Space. While these three are oriented toward broadband...
