February 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... is China’s first, self-developed, commercial remote sensing satellite system and is operated by the Chang Guang Satellite Technology Corporation (CGSTC). The Jilin-1 satellite constellation is the core project and will eventually be composed of 138...
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
...current Japanese space industry because there is too much risk in challenging the NewSpace economy with a small satellite constellation or recycling the first stage of a launch vehicle. Instead, the Vision targets niche technologies and services that...
20 April 2016
Satellite company OneWeb announce ambitious plans for world-wide internet coverage
... outside the gates of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to build its 900 satellite constellation - that will ultimately see the company churning them out at 15 satellites a week – following a co-funding agreement with the state of Florida. Start...
25 May 2016
Successful liftoff for Soyuz
...bring them to their final working orbit. “Today’s textbook launch has added two more satellites to what has become Europe’s largest satellite constellation,” commented Jan Woerner, Director General of ESA in a press conference yesterday. “It was made...
December 2018
Prosperity in the stars
... data to the tiny spacecraft. Asgardia-1 is the beginning of a 25-year space programme that will continue with satellite constellations and end with a settlement on the Moon in the 2040s. Ashurbeyli explains: “We are not contemplating things that...
January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
... by the phrase ‘Sustainable Earth & Space’, with two practical results of this policy being the Atlantic Satellite Constellation and monitoring space debris. Is Portugal looking to specialise in terms of the industry or technology? Our declared goal...
