... of the space industry: more than half of the space business involves building and launching communication satellites. Satcoms services and applications are the largest space sector and are a major driver of space technology and developments...
Satellite servicing firm Astroscale is getting ready to launch its ELSA-d ... a capture mechanism that will attach to a Docking Plate on the ‘Client’ satellite. The Servicer and Client will then de-orbit together, burning up as they re-enter the Earth...
..., 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... developed by the Chinese Academy of Space Technology (CAST) and operated by the National Satellite Ocean Application Service, a subordinate agency of the State Oceanic Administration. The spacecraft use the three-axis stabilised CAST968 platform...