April 2020
Replacing hydrazine fuel with a greener alternative
... reliability for end-of-life deorbiting, unless expensive, complicated workarounds are implemented. All this means that space companies are losing capabilities by using these new fuels, instead of gaining them. Propulsion systems are leading the...
October 2020
Pandemic impacts - the state of the ground segment
... interfaces, functionality and quality are key. Additionally, teaming arrangements and collaborative partnerships are critical for space companies wishing to maximise innovation and speed-to-deployment of their newest solutions. Collaborations allow...
April 2021
Satellites in the cloud: data from orbit
... experienced service providers to government and defence clients as well as commercial space companies, the latest flurry of cloud-related activity in NewSpace and ‘traditional’ space was perhaps, a long time coming. Moves up and across the stack...
April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
... and third in the world – to achieve orbit. Although we do not hear much about Chinese space activities in the US and Europe, Chinese space companies have been active in developing markets. Emerging leaders will likely expand to compete globally with...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
...-up founded in 2015. Ultimately, the latter half of the 2010s created a large and growing ecosystem of Chinese commercial space companies, many of which had raised generous sums from VCs. Meanwhile, others were actually earning revenues in a number...
May 2022
Using space data to improve life on Earth
... are building every day Our constellation is so robust that we pioneered a new Space-as-a-Service offering, where we enable any company to be a space company by taking ‘space’ out of the equation. We leverage our fully deployed infrastructure to help...
