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...
September 2019
Expectations in a connected world
... is imperative in ensuring reliable and flexible control of this ever-growing environment. A global network of data exchange satellites. For satellite and terrestrial operators alike, gone are the days that any single operator has full control...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... rise of the mega-constellations has set a new precedent in orbital congestion, simply as a result of the increased number of satellites. But that is only part of the story: it’s also an issue of regulation and planning which, as Stuart Eves explains...
June 2022
Finnish start-up ReOrbit aims to revolutionise space industry
... In a blog written by Sarah Sheard, for Carnegie Mellon University in 2014, it was predicted that the future development of satellites would require bringing in software engineers as partners from day one but up until now, the technological challenge...
