10 April 2019
Brexit high noon for UK space industry
... 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...
29 November 2019
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget
... 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...
June 2015
Watching over alpine explorers
...Austria and provides an effective, coordinated satellitebased operations control system for rescue forces operating in the alpine region. The system is based on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) for positioning and navigation. Terrestrial and...
October 2025
High-altitude platforms - the search for an optimised legal framework
... user input to receipt of server response. Compared to the 70 millisecond latency associated with low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite systems like OneWeb, HAPS promises latency times of a few milliseconds (ms). This stands to benefit uses as diverse...
08 January 2023
GPS
... 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...
January 2020
Apollo girl - camaraderie and discrimination in the Apollo era
... 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...
