May 2018
Delivering farming solutions with satellite-powered data analytics
... a solid foundation with decades of datasets to be exploited for value creation in applications right here on Earth. The small satellite revolution has further extended the scope of applications with companies today having constellations that can...
April 2021
Making space part of the everyday European agenda
.... These have been held annually and at the first one I issued a challenge to see AI being tested on small satellites. We went on to do exactly that in launching last September PhiSat One, designed to demonstrate how onboard artificial intelligence...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
...company, founded in 2016, wants to turn around customer orders to build and launch its small satellites in just six months, and provide Satellite as a Service. Spacety is deploying a unique Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) constellation with both C and...
January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
... during the decade. The first, ‘Atlantic Constellation’, is about fostering the development of a constellation of small satellites dedicated to investigating and monitoring the Atlantic Ocean, responding to climate-change challenges, increased...
14 October 2019
First dedicated commercial smallsat mission to Mars unveiled
... a dozen Polish universities to establish a new consortium with an aim to carry out the world’s first dedicated commercial small satellite mission to Mars. With a proposed launch date expected as early as 2022 for the first-of-its-kind CubeSat...
10 January 2023
Virgin Orbit fails to deliver on first launch from UK
... The two-stage, expendable launch vehicle is designed to place small satellites of up to 500 kg (1,100 lb) into a wide ...low-cost route to orbit as the demand for sending small satellites into low Earth orbit grows exponentially. Chris Larmour, CEO...
