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...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
...is a huge opportunity for the UK to integrate ‘downstream’ business demand with rapid ‘upstream’ manufacturing supply of satellite constellations Lowering the cost of access to space is a key challenge that the spaceports will fulfil in part. However...
26 August 2020
LEO constellations will "fundamentally change" astronomy, warns new report
... 1 (Satcon1) workshop held virtually on 29 June–2 July 2020. Using computer simulations to examine how satellite constellations such as those by SpaceX could affect the operations of Earth-based observatories once fully deployed, the workshop...
16 October 2019
SpaceX files request to launch 30,000 more Starlink satellites
... in-progress OneWeb and Globalstar internet networks along with Amazon's recently announced Project Kuiper satellite internet. “Satellite constellations can pose a significant or debilitating threat to important existing and and future astronomical...
07 October 2020
Chinese company seeks approval to launch nearly 13,000 satellites
... of the initiative. China are already planning three low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations; Hongyun, which plans 864 satellites; Hongyan, which plans around 320 satellites, and Galaxy Space. While these three are oriented toward broadband...
