March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
... Just recently, two major commercial organisations have announced their intention to invest in huge constellations of small satellites (4,000 satellites for Space X and 650 for Virgin Galactic9) to broadcast the Internet to the world. This re-ignites...
March 2015
Twinkle, twinkle satellite
... of the fate of two astronauts stranded in space. The reason as to why they’re stranded? A Russian missile strike on a broken satellite has created a cloud of space debris (those pesky Russians again!). The debris detaches Bullock’s character from...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
.... Meanwhile, in Washington DC, vice-president Al Gore was taking steps to make his vision for a climate monitoring satellite a reality. The satellite, officially called Triana but nicknamed Goresat, was under development to take real time images from...
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...
March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
...to support R&D processes. Since the compact Gecko imaging payload first flew in 2017 as a technology demonstrator on the nSight-1 satellite, SAC and ISIS worked to package the imager as a standalone RGB imaging payload for closely integrated CubeSats...
