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...
03 May 2019
Debris from India's ASAT test worse than predicted
...’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO). This distance is below that used by many of the hundreds of working satellites in space in a low Earth orbit (LEO), a region that corresponds to a range of altitudes anywhere from 400 and 1200...
18 June 2019
Israeli space tech firm hiSky expands to the UK
... is targeted to support the development of hiSky’s satellite receiving terminals, operations and management software for the...our privilege to establish the first real low-cost global Virtual Satellite Network and to do it in the UK. hiSky’s cutting ...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... countries that have participated in the construction of the satellite. This means that there is a growing unmet global... space observatories (Kepler-2, GAIA, Cheops and TESS). The Twinkle satellite will be built in the UK and launched into a low-Earth...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
...its offer of assistance, or remove itself from any such voluntary organisation, even though it is not as easy as it sounds. Satellite image of refugee camp at the Syrian-Jordanian border taken by UrtheCast’s Deimos-2. Protected data The real question...
