October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
...launched into almost the same (type of) orbit [500 km SSO] as the four Tianhui 1 satellites. There is no Tianhui 3 satellite as of now. The Tianhui 4 satellite [2021] will, reportedly, observe the Earth in both the visible and infrared spectrum using...
February 2021
Satellites are key to unlocking a better-connected world
... fact that 5G backhaul capacity demand will consume four to five times the bandwidth of a 4G site, according to NSR. Satellite technology has already proved itself as being highly adaptable for mobile backhaul purposes. Connectivity delivered by new...
February 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... introduction of support policies helped commercial players. Between 2019 and 2021, the annual commercial remote sensing satellites that were launched were 21, 13 and 36 respectively, while the number by the end of 2022 is expected to be more than...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... tool to allow the exchange of information, we still need to develop additional sources for the information that is to be exchanged. A satellite that is not properly disposed of only becomes a new element of the debris picture While there may exist...
April 2018
Climate monitoring and the need for open access to global environmental satellite data
... still exacerbated by a lack of international data sharing. While some nations make data from unclassified, government-owned EO satellites freely available, others still restrict access, which means that not all collected data is contributing to our...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
... using foreign rockets, was accidentally omitted. Similarly, registration of the short-lived STS-44, SEDS-1 and STS-66 satellites were omitted by error. The registration information of 1991-1A initially included the USA as the territory of launch and...
