April 2018
Transforming the launch market for small spacecraft
... individual or small batches of small spacecraft. The Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket carrying NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System, or CYGNSS, spacecraft is released from its carrier. Pegasus is currently the only active small launcher...
July 2019
Luxembourg’s space legislation
... very early – in 1991 – under the Electronic Media Act. However, this law was limited to the authorisation of satellite systems and could not envisage that, 25 years later, new forms of space activity would be conducted under the...
September 2019
Extending the life of geostationary orbit satellites
... universal ports will allow for both quick disconnection and replacement of failed systems and augmentation and upgrade of existing satellite systems by any robotic satellite servicing vehicle. This open architecture will allow more frequent and cost...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
... spacecraft). In fact, Planet, which operates the largest remote sensing satellite system in the world with some 150 satellites in orbit, has already adopted remote satellite operation. A normally busy Frankfurt airport looks almost deserted amid the...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
... Landspace, iSpace, OneSpace and Expace, and the satellite manufacturers Commsat, Space-OK and CGSTL. Some of these... coming years. In just over three decades China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) - named after the Chinese term for the Big ...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
... our environmental impact on the planet. Government enthusiasm The development of new markets in high volume, low-cost satellite systems is extremely attractive The current UK government has retained this enthusiasm for space and is now realising its...
