March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
...Precipitation (GSMaP) every hour by combining data from more than 13 satellites, including the GPM core satellite, constellation satellites, and geostationary satellites. GSMaP provides global rainfall distribution data with a 0.1 degree grid. Anyone...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
...rest are either in LEO or in the medium Earth orbits (MEOs) used by GPS and other global navigation satellite constellations. Spatial density of orbital debris vs. altitude in Low Earth orbits. Orbital debris concern The proliferation of space debris...
September 2017
India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship
... a wide array of communications services including AIS, ADS-B, IoT, etc. and small satellite constellations in EO for bringing in the four Vs of satellite big data. These services are already being planned by several NewSpace players around the world...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
... commercial ambitions. Specifically, it was highlighted that insurance requirements on individual satellites would be wholly impractical for multiple satellite constellations. As the Bill continued its passage through Parliament, attempts at imposing...
October 2020
Essential role of satellites in disaster and pandemic management
... Such an accomplishment was only achieved, in a pandemic zone, through robust monitoring via the high-resolution GaoFen satellite constellation, which was used for mapping, surveillance, and remote sensing to complete the mission. Robots and Internet...
March 2021
iPhone moment for the Earth observation industry
... the price of EO data, geopolitical needs or new technological advancement leading to the availability of a new type of data. Small satellite constellations are on the rise, which will produce more data, but it is plausible that the focus will shift...
