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...
January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
...is increasing This summer, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) also announced that it will be launching a constellation of 72 satellites, via private satellite company Commsat, to help the nation strengthen its IoT efforts over the next three years...
April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
... a whiteboard in the mid-2000s had finally resulted in an operating, docked ‘stack’ of spacecraft in GEO. The world’s first satellite servicing vehicle had proven itself in commercial use, opening up a whole new kind of privately funded space market...
March 2022
Smoothing the journey to space with the satellite-as-a-service model
...-as-a-service and mission-as-a-service A solution to this challenge involves using a shared-access, single host/multi-tenant satellite. This approach can dramatically lower costs and speed up the development schedule of many areas of space technology...
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...
