July 2014
View from Inmarsat: the search for MH370 and using satellites for safety
... and for reasons we may never know headed south. Inmarsat is a long-standing provider of satellite communication (satcom) safety services supporting aircraft on a worldwide basis. The company has over 30 years’ experience in designing, launching...
July 2014
Achilles’ heel
... and thriving space sector is critical to socio-economic development and international security; any significant disruption to satellite services would cause lasting damage. Efforts are under way in a number of areas to mitigate some of the threats...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... that may one day provide additional premium income. This has certainly been the case with satellite servicing technologies, as shown by interest in Astroscale’s ELSA-d debris removal demonstration mission, which was launched to orbit successfully...
October 2024
Virtualisation of the satellite sector
... the telecoms provider (telco) world. This transformation will open up broad avenues of opportunity for satellite service providers, satellite operators, enterprise customers… and everyone in between. Apossible, high-level framework for architecting...
19 March 2021
World's first commercial space debris removal demo set for launch
Satellite servicing firm Astroscale is getting ready to launch its ELSA-d ... a capture mechanism that will attach to a Docking Plate on the ‘Client’ satellite. The Servicer and Client will then de-orbit together, burning up as they re-enter the Earth...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... a step forward when Thuraya Telecommunications, the Dubai-based mobile satellite services (MSS) operator, released the Thuraya SatSleeve in March 2013. The VIPturbo satellite modem Satellite will increasingly become part of our lives The SatSleeve...
