29 September 2020
NanoAvionics launches second satellite for Lacuna Space’s growing IoT satellite constellation
... and launch the first nanosatellite for Lacuna Space’s satellite system, I’m excited about this latest successful launch... provide a global internet-of-things service via a nanosatellite constellation in low Earth orbit (LEO) and autonomous sensors ...
April 2021
Making space part of the everyday European agenda
... as Director of Earth observation (EO) programmes what have been the key changes and developments? In 2016 the first satellite constellations were starting and new companies, particularly in Silicon Valley, were beginning to emerge into the EO domain...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... both natural hazards and man-made threats such as space debris. Stuart has an MSc in Astrophysics, a PhD in satellite constellation design, and has been a fellow of both the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society...
April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
... the Earth in eight shells with different altitudes and inclinations. Each dot represents one satellite. Constellations Satellite constellations are groups of spacecraft of the same design, distributed among a series of orbits in order to cover the...
November 2018
Purpose, promise and power – video from space
... included images of moving aeroplanes at Dubai airport. In preparation for its new VHR Video satellite constellation, colour video from space at a native 1 m pixel resolution (up to 60 cm with super-resolution processing) and at up to 30 frames...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
...does not yet understand the impact of these satellite constellations, but recognises that they may threaten both ...radio astronomy from aggregate radio signals emitted from the satellite constellations, stating that “recent advances in radio astronomy,...
