October 2020
Open Source Space
... potential of small satellite systems, missions and applications, further stimulating the market, supply chain and wider smallsat ecosystem. These developments allowed missions to be implemented for a much lower cost than traditional large satellites...
April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
... Spire, and small rocket launcher, Rocketlab. Spire is a space based SAAS business, leveraging data from its smallsat constellation to track ships, planes and weather Industry consolidation In addition to SPACs looking to make acquisitions, the trend...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
.... See http://eijournal.com/print/articles/earth-observation-embracing-the-new-space-environment-the-significance-of-eo-smallsat-constellations 3 “Des Aliens et des barbares: une révolution dans l’observation de la Terre”, Thierry Rousselin, Revue...
January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
... forms of connectivity are targeting the IoT market with smallsats, ranging from heavyweights like Iridium, Orbcomm and Eutelsat ...station and a GEO satellite, is another challenge for smallsat operators. The most common solutions are beam pointing, ...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... value projects. The size of the satellites has also been changing. Large satellites are being replaced by smallsats. Smallsats have a better impact on industry in terms of demand for products because the lifetime of a small satellite is shorter than...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
... include a factory capable of producing dozens of rockets per year for Expace, as well as a highly automated smallsat factory. The smallsat factory, which will have an eventual capacity of 240 satellites per year, was completed in January 2021...
