... investment industry could be affected. Think, for example, about high-speed trading where the global navigation satellite systems are commonly used to place time stamps on financial transactions where precision timing is critical. A severe space...
... institutional launches per year. The EU, for example, is launching a navigation satellite system, Galileo, similar to the U.S GPS system, that requires 24 operational satellites (plus in-orbit spares), which should guarantee a continuing demand for...
... UK could play in the global space enterprise, post-Brexit." British involvement in the European Galileo global navigation satellite system has been one of the most fraught space-related challenges of Brexit. Over the course of the summer...
... an injection of funds, ESA can now move ahead with the early phase development of the six Sentinel satellite systems that would complement the existing arrangement. At present, three complete two...
... reading, chapter notes and an index. Much to its credit, it even includes a chapter on ‘European, Russian and other satellite systems’. I can imagine that the entire series of more than 30 books looks good on any serious reader’s bookshelves...
... deployment of the first ever space-based communications system. The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) would consist of a constellation of geosynchronous satellites and associated ground facilities, providing global tracking, telemetry...