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...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
... This seemed an appropriate name for these newly discovered objects, and so they became known as satellites. An incvreasing number of satellite constellations in coming years will need focused and specific global traffic magaement rules. Once Sputnik...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... by the launch of very large commercial satellite constellations, and it shows no sign of slowing down. Just one such constellation, Starlink, will have more satellites when it is completed than all the satellites that were launched by all nations...
September 2025
AI cybersecurity - challenges in space
... which is crucial for missions beyond Earth orbit and for managing increasingly large and complex satellite constellations. Cybersecurity challenges AI techniques are vital for tasks such as automated object detection and classification in EO imagery...
May 2026
Satellite brightness and the mitigation challenge
... costs, because the space sector has historically hidden behind corporate confidentiality Applied to a representative 100 satellite constellation in the 250 kg class with a seven-year mission lifetime, the framework reveals what compliance may...