... are currently around 70 per year. This is in addition to the general increase in space traffic in LEO mainly fuelled by small satellites and cubesats as well as nanosats, which grant cheaper access to space. Even before these recent trends, space...
... the current Japanese space industry because there is too much risk in challenging the NewSpace economy with a small satellite constellation or recycling the first stage of a launch vehicle. Instead, the Vision targets niche technologies and services...
... provide global coverage via a large, or mega-constellation, of closely connected small satellites using inter-satellite links to adaptively route traffic, starting and ending with very small terminals at each end. This eliminates the need for the...
... than 50 research and development projects from universities and private companies in different research areas, ranging from small satellite development to the use of space imagery for the detection of tropical diseases. The fund has proven...
... survive, and the race to success is on Some of the recent technological advances and reasons for the success of small satellites are also contributing to the issue of radio interference. Smaller antennas for example have big upsides, including...
... the implementation of this concept, the technical capabilities needed to build and launch small inspector satellites continue to advance. Extremely capable small satellite missions with video imaging systems now exist and, perhaps more importantly...