May 2022
Using space data to improve life on Earth
... computing industries. Since our applications would all be software-defined, it also meant we could continuously improve our satellites, even after they had been launched, through on-orbit software upgrades. Spire is vertically integrated, with both...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... the ground and track enemy missiles in flight. By late 2022, the agency wants to have several dozen satellites in orbit to demonstrate it can operate a proliferated constellation which can ‘talk’ to weapon systems. Space sustainability is one of the...
November 2018
Monitoring illegal rainforest deforestation
...That enables specification of optional spectral filters without any significant design changes on the optical system. A constellation of 16 satellites will assure a revisit time shorter than four days to any region of the equatorial belt with spatial...
July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
... in outer space and the whole world will benefit from it. US Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellite, courtesy AFSPC. About the author Gerard Brachet is a consultant on space policy issues and space applications, and...
May 2020
Iran - emerging space state or threat to world peace?
... Iranian President Ahmadinejad later stated that the launch had failed. In fact, Iran had already launched a satellite (Sina-1) using a Russian vehicle launched from Plesetsk on 27 October 2005. Much of Iran’s development of ballistic missiles and...
March 2021
Eyes on the prize
...realise it, the UK is in the premier league of world space technology, from instrumentation, data science and satellite operations to satellite manufacture. Government decisions over the past two decades, combined with a strong engineering base, mean...
