June 2022
In-orbit servicing and the future of the space industry
... for the past couple of years. Its orbital transfer vehicles have streamlined the deployment of small satellite constellations, reducing the time required from launch to operations by up to 85 percent and the cost for deployment of an entire...
01 September 2016
Mega-constellation deployment to be discussed at IAC 2016
... their plans to deploy large low-Earth orbit satellite constellations. Both constellations are to be deployed at high-inclination orbits. The OneWeb constellation will consist of 720 satellites operating at 1200 km altitude and in 18 different orbit...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
... This seemed an appropriate name for these newly discovered objects, and so they became known as satellites. An incvreasing number of satellite constellations in coming years will need focused and specific global traffic magaement rules. Once Sputnik...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... by the launch of very large commercial satellite constellations, and it shows no sign of slowing down. Just one such constellation, Starlink, will have more satellites when it is completed than all the satellites that were launched by all nations...
April 2021
Norway’s pioneering use of microsatellites
... AISSat-1 and -2 and NorSat-1 and -2 on 22 July 2017 at 11:24 UTC. New sensors on NorSat-3 and -4 The Norwegian AIS satellite constellation has proven its utility for maritime surveillance and operations, particularly in the Arctic The Norwegian AIS...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
.... For its part, Arianespace had to develop launch solutions capable of addressing the growing demand of satellite constellation programmes for telecommunications. In order to meet this demand and to maintain its privileged relationship with space...
