April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... that might be gained with the use of artificial intelligence are still in the future. LEO satellite constellations are the truly global option. Depending on the type of constellation in place, they can cover the whole of planet Earth continuously...
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...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... and each is about one hundreth of the cost of the next cheapest SAR satellite. Another example is Spire Global, which has a hundred-satellite constellation for weather observations that currently produces five-day forecasts more accurate than...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
...mainstream and is now open to the public market. Equipped with US$21 million in new funding, Satellite Vu will launch its initial seven-satellite constellation in 2023 and begin thermal monitoring of Earth. The company’s orbital view of heat and cold...
March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
... twenty to thirty such satlets will be assembled in orbit. How to cooperate on Earth? In order to provide effective satellite constellation operations and receive enormous volumes of ERS data, the creation of a global network of ground-based stations...
