March 2015
Satellite technology in newsgathering and disaster coverage
...the advent of additional frequency ranges, and an explosion in audience expectations drove news organisations to invest in their own satellite ground infrastructure. Mobile news vans with uplink dishes became necessities for most medium-to-large news...
March 2015
On-orbit satellite servicing, insurance and lessons of Palapa B2 and Westar 6
... later in 1992, NASA again rescued a stranded satellite in a similar situation. This time insurers insured the... Servicing has the potential to repair malfunctioning satellites, clear retired satellites and debris from geosynchronous orbit, and may...
August 2016
Smallsat launch strategy
... system as a whole remained intact. We would never have been able to mature the technology, grow our expertise in satellite manufacturing and operations, and expand our operational on-orbit fleet so quickly and effectively if we had simply manifested...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
... embedded in many aspects of our modern lives, are our servants in space There are three, primary satellite applications today. Satellite telecommunications, remote sensing and Precision Navigation and Timing (PNT). The global space industry today...
August 2018
Earth observation game-changer
...was to establish a new way of monitoring the world’s oceans. It was designed to demonstrate the feasibility of global SAR satellite monitoring to collect data on sea-surface movements, wave heights, sea ice features and ocean topography. A compressed...
April 2019
The changing economics of space
...This generally comes under the heading of in-orbit servicing, which means attaching a servicing spacecraft to a target, aged satellite, so that the docking spacecraft can manipulate it. There are several ways in which this hard docking of a servicing...
