September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... facilities. Australia’s role Australia not only has the geography, stability and knowledge to manufacture and launch small satellites from its own soil but has existing commercial and research enterprises actively involved in key areas...
August 2018
Earth observation game-changer
... clouds. A compressed ICEYE-X1 SAR image of George Town, Malaysia. The reason the idea of placing SAR technology on a small satellite has been previously unimaginable is related to the complexity of such systems as a whole. It has not been for a lack...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... 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...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... Galactic & Blue Origin) has so far taken about 15-19 years and required $500 million+ of investment Development of orbital small satellite launchers (Rocket Labs) has so far taken about 11 years and required about $120 million of investment. CST...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
...to meet. For example, monitoring the build-up of pollution in a housing area near a congested road would need fleets of small satellites hosting dedicated instruments. The space business has been changing for a number of years. Manufacturing has been...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... issues have already occurred. The first was the unauthorised launch of multiple unlicensed and untrackable small satellites by Swarm Technologies Inc in January 2018 in defiance of a ruling by the Federal Communications Commission, for which the...
