12 March 2018
Satellite-servicing space drones set for launch in 2020
... Effective Space’s SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft into orbit in 2020. Built specifically to prolong the working life of communication satellites already in orbit, the SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft is a small (1m x 1m x 1.25m), 400-kilogram spacecraft that locks...
02 December 2019
Chang'e 4 relay satellite now a radio telescope
... as a radio telescope for a novel Dutch/Chinese collaboration. Meaning "magpie bridge" in Chinese, Queqiao, the once communications relay satellite stationed on the far side of the Moon is now the Netherlands-China Low Frequency Explorer (NCLE...
02 February 2018
Joe Pelton honoured for contribution to space safety
... Dean of the International Space University (ISU) in Strasburg, France. He has worked at NASA, the Communications Satellite Corporation, served as Director of Strategy Planning for Intelsat, and headed the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program...
February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
... an active Danger Area (D201) operated and managed by Defence and Space Company QinetiQ. From fully functioning communications satellites to smal cubeSats, business will be able to launch their equipment more frequently in future Nearby MoD Aberporth...
09 May 2019
Seradata Space Conference to focus on managing space risk and insurance
... from the big four Space Insurance Brokers against four experienced space underwriters ∙ A session covering the Communications Satellite Market and Technology which will be led by Intelsat's Gregory Ewert and John Finney from Isotropic Systems...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
...resources to attain the collective goal of human advancement by planetary exploration makes eminent sense. India’s GSAT-12 communication satellite launched by ISRO in July 2011 A variety of technology and cost-sharing models could be worked upon. For...
