February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... in Earth orbit, and an increasing number of private companies operate commercial satellite systems, either in geostationary Earth orbit (GEO), where most telecommunications satellites are located, or in LEO, which are widely used for meteorology and...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... in the vicinity of the GEO belt and mitigation of its impact on commercial satellites” (Address to the 30th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC), Ottawa, Canada, 24-17 September 2012). 4 EA Taylor, Orbit Theory and...
August 2017
On-orbit assembly will deliver major benefits in coming decade
...four different regions simultaneously. Due to the dynamic nature of end-user data distribution requests, these satellite systems typically achieve utilisation rates of only 60 to 70 percent. An increase in the number of antennas, without changing any...
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...
October 2019
Reusability is key to expanding future space launch business
... of the distance and places where terrestrial wireless simply cannot penetrate. So there is a huge opportunity for satellite systems in the mobile broadband marketplace where growth is currently at double digit rates. The Blue Moon lander, unveiled...
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 ...
