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...
January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
... of the IoT market and devices globally is staggering, to say the least. Forecasts like those from Northern Sky Research (NSR) predict 30 billion IoT devices in total will be online by the middle of the next decade, while...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... unmistakable. In fact, during its construction it overtook Venus to become the second brightest object visible in the night sky, after the Moon. Even so, watching the ISS pass overhead as an unresolved point of light doesn’t really tell...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
... in the industry at large. Other well-known space companies closing their doors include Bigelow Aerospace and Sky & Space Global, both victims of the liquidity crunch. Meanwhile, several rocket launches and space mission operations...
