January 2021
Safeguarding space - lessons from decommissioning in the energy industry
... the big question remains - how can the removal of satellites from orbit be encouraged among the global space community? A well-documented collision between the Iridium communications satellite and a defunct Russian military spacecraft in 2009 caused...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
..., which is supported by the whole spectrum of existing space assets including the global navigation satellite system (GNSS), communication satellites, Earth observation systems, space probes and even CubeSats. Therefore, the operation of the whole...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
... in which they reside, but there are also significant potential societal benefits to providing low-cost communications, satellite broadband and other services to less-well developed regions that ground-based infrastructure cannot support. However...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... have cost some two percent of GDP). The global satcom industry has also seen a downturn in GEO communications satellite orders since the mid-2010s, partly due to fewer countries purchasing so-called ‘PrideSats’. Indeed, the most...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...work of the United Nations to keep weapons out of space Under reforming minister Takeo Kawamura, navigation and communications satellites were added, with military security identified as the top priority of the space programme. The Liberal Democratic...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... ballistic and hypersonic missiles. Next, the Space Development Agency’s plan to launch the Transport Layer or 126 communications satellites to support Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) capability, basically taking data from space and...
