10 March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
... 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...
19 March 2021
World's first commercial space debris removal demo set for launch
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...
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...
May 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...
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...
