March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
...difficult to distinguish from the stars. So began the magnificent launch of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) core satellite. The US ambassador to Japan, Ms. Caroline Kennedy, made a special statement before the press, saying that her father...
March 2018
Shifting lines and new horizons in Earth observation markets
... and this model can be very efficient. If EO data become a commodity with huge competition between data and satellite owners, there will be an opportunity for pure content aggregators or data brokers, without investment in proprietary data collection...
April 2018
Transforming the launch market for small spacecraft
...is OneWeb, a company that has contracted with Arianespace to launch a mega-constellation of almost 700 small satellites. The bulk of these satellites are planned to launch as rideshare on the large and well-established Soyuz launch vehicle, for which...
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...
November 2018
Purpose, promise and power – video from space
...and high definition (HD) video capability at VHR (1 m or better) spatial resolution. Planet already has a number of its SkySat satellites in space, providing black and white (panchromatic channel) video capability with VHR. However, colour images and...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
... stages). It is not just spacecraft operators and manufacturers that have an interest in launch vehicles that deliver their satellites safely and correctly; financiers usually make insurance a prerequisite for their financing deals. While the planned...
