November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... that the first space-related insurance policy was written as long ago as 1965 - for the Intelsat I communications satellite (colloquially known as ‘Early Bird’) launched in April of that year. Although it covered only third-party liability and...
10 March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
... the mainstay of the space industry: more than half of the space business involves building and launching communication satellites. Satcoms services and applications are the largest space sector and are a major driver of space technology...
July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
... value of space in everyday life started to become apparent with the launch of the first communications satellites in the 1960s. Nowadays, weather satellites are taken for granted as an essential part of the forecasting process, while people rarely...
March 2015
Satellite technology in newsgathering and disaster coverage
... down. We also have a throughput problem. Historically, there is just not a lot of total bandwidth on a conventional geostationary communications satellite. There is more internet bandwidth serving many small neighbourhoods than exists on a typical...
March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
...18,600 miles into space, just shy of the 22,236 miles at which US satellites in geosynchronous orbit - including essential missile warning and communications satellites - are located. The US has built an enormously expensive and delicate architecture...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
.... Spacepower is ubiquitous, or in the case of Earth observation near ubiquity, because communications, satellite navigation and environmental monitoring satellite systems provide coverage of the entire Earth’s surface. Finally, spacepower provides...
