March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
...thereby reducing production times and cost of the beginning of active operations for a satellite constellation (when compared to large spacecraft constellations). Big companies miss out? Another reason the small spacecraft market is attractive to new...
January 2019
Smallsat revolution and AI kick-start nascent EO big data market
... commercial contract comes up for renewal in a few years. With over 200 Earth observation satellites, Planet now operates the largest satellite constellation in history. Deimos, a subsidiary of UrtheCast, has expanded into analytics with its recent...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
... to analyse and process data at scale and the next wave of Earth observation and Internet of Things (IoT) satellite constellations exist to provide more data. In fact, it is foreseeable that, within the next five years, more data will...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... EO market as a new provider. Key initiatives Over the past decade, more than 33 projects for new EO satellite constellations have been announced. Although experts may remain sceptical of the capability of these projects to become operational, some...
November 2018
Monitoring illegal rainforest deforestation
... we consider a GSD of 1.5 m so that a road 2 m wide will have a detection confidence higher than 50 percent. Satellite constellation coverage illustration. Operational system Ninety-five percent of deforestation occurs at 5.5 km from roads and about...
September 2023
Satellite manufacturing - building to size, speed and security
... proximity operations (RPO) mission around each other. LINUSS proved that small systems of CubeSats can upgrade satellite constellations and extend the design lifecycle of spacecraft in orbit. Terran Orbital has continued to shape the future of the...
