January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... and each is about one hundreth of the cost of the next cheapest SAR satellite. Another example is Spire Global, which has a hundred-satellite constellation for weather observations that currently produces five-day forecasts more accurate than...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
...mainstream and is now open to the public market. Equipped with US$21 million in new funding, Satellite Vu will launch its initial seven-satellite constellation in 2023 and begin thermal monitoring of Earth. The company’s orbital view of heat and cold...
October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
...nine such triplets have been launched. Jianbing 8 satellite constellation. On 6 November, 2021, China successfully launched a triplet of satellites, Yaogan 35 01-A, -B and -C. The satellites were placed in a circular orbit of almost 500 km/35 degrees...
18 December 2024
EU to launch advanced constellation to counter Musk’s Starlink
...and secure connectivity amid increasing global concerns over cybersecurity. A contract to deliver the multi-orbital satellite constellation was signed this week in Brussels by the European Commission with the SpaceRISE, a consortium specially created...
March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
... twenty to thirty such satlets will be assembled in orbit. How to cooperate on Earth? In order to provide effective satellite constellation operations and receive enormous volumes of ERS data, the creation of a global network of ground-based stations...
October 2015
Down to Earth: how to deorbit satellites and save money
... life for up to six months, and reduce the costs of post-mission disposal, especially for large satellite constellations. At the moment it is not possible to recuperate objects in space, so a dedicated system must be integrated before launch...
