May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
... about the giant planet, which was named after the powerful king of the gods, master of the sky and thunder of the ancient Romans. In Latin, a satelles (or plural satellitis) was an attendant or servant of a powerful person, often...
June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
... on the Moon is potentially more lucrative than mining an asteroid. Aside from providing a stunning backdrop to the night sky that has wowed humanity for thousands of years, the Moon has many valuable resources; just like...
October 2017
Saving geostationary orbit
... altitude (35,786 km) where satellites match the Earth’s sidereal rotation period, (thereby appearing fixed in the sky relative to a point on Earth, and so providing a convenient location from which to relay telephone communications). The first...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... by US bank Merrill Lynch to be worth trillions of dollars in 20 years’ time. In January this year, market research firm, Northern Sky Research, published its In-Orbit Servicing Markets report that concluded that by 2028 the market will be worth...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
Almost anyone who has looked into the night sky has wondered if we could ever travel to the stars. Today, for the first time in history, we might be only ...
May 2019
Wake-up call for debris creation in geostationary orbit
... two geostationary satellites to fragment was AMC-9, a large communications satellite - built by Alcatel and operated by SES World Skies - that was servicing the USA and Mexico. On 17 June 2017, it had just passed its fourteenth birthday...
