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...
September 2017
Space nation set to mark its presence in orbit
... regular communication between Earth and the Asgardian satellite through NSL’s EyeStar S2 Simplex and Duplex radios and Globalstar’s 30 satellite constellation, regardless of the satellite’s position in orbit. “There is nothing and nobody standing...
January 2019
Is the NewSpace bubble about to burst?
... ludicrous. SpaceX’s attempts to find new sources of revenue also appear to be proving deeply problematic because the broadband satellite constellation business now seems to be in even more dire straits than the launch business. Need for BFR? Rumours...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
...Londonregistered OneWeb was in the process of building a mega-constellation of 648 satellites in order to achieve full global coverage by the ... manufacturing its next-generation satellite constellation, which will have its first launch early in 2021...
June 2022
In-orbit servicing and the future of the space industry
... for the past couple of years. Its orbital transfer vehicles have streamlined the deployment of small satellite constellations, reducing the time required from launch to operations by up to 85 percent and the cost for deployment of an entire...
