January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
..., founded in 2016, wants to turn around customer orders to build and launch its small satellites in just six months, and provide Satellite as a Service. Spacety is deploying a unique Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) constellation with both C and X-band...
March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
... activity in orbit. Another powerful externality is the growing problem of radio frequency interference (RFI) as many satellite applications and services use a handful of common frequency bands. This has led to a growing competition for spectrum and...
April 2019
Wake-up call for debris creation in geostationary orbit
... Treaty, is “the common heritage of mankind” Two months later, on 25 August 2017, another communications satellite, Telkom 1 servicing Indonesia, experienced what Gunter Krebs (of Gunter’s Space Page) described as “a massive debris shedding event...
08 July 2019
Amazon seeks approval for 3,236 broadband satellite constellation
... believes there is room for one more mega-constellation at least. "The Kuiper System will deliver satellite broadband communications services to tens of millions of unserved and underserved consumers and businesses in the United States and around the...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... have been cleaned, even with the international programme clean’Space designed to capture and take old satellites out of service. And yet this technological weakness of our society was known. Lunar future. Climate forecasting The...
September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
...) Better/cheaper space qualified designs allow hosting of anyone’s idea in space Satellite connectivity is much more mainstream Satellites as a service and constellations as a service with time-based access to dynamically reprogrammable payloads. The...
