March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... hundreds of satellites, to extend the Internet backbone to low Earth orbit and other commercial projects. The response? Google’s investment of a billion dollars into the marketplace. SELECTED COUNTRIES WHOSE FIRST SATE LLITE IS A NANOSATE LLITE...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
..., and even economists have long discussed and debated how limitations can lead to breakthroughs. Marissa Mayer, of Google and Yahoo fame, once famously wrote an article titled ‘Creativity Loves Constraints’ where she outlined how...
September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
... operating by 2024. OneWeb has an 800-satellite constellation planned for 2020, again focused on global broadband, while Google and Samsung are also mulling similar initiatives. With all these satellites, low-Earth orbit - at an altitude...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
... Sierra Nevada Corp) and Odyssey Moon. Odyssey Moon was the first team to register for the Google Lunar X Prize, a competition that in the end, no team won. However, a concessionary US$1 million in funds was recently awarded...
November 2020
Walking on the Moon
... missions that will follow. Although it ultimately failed to deliver its promise, it is also important to recognise the Google Lunar X-Prize. Announced in 2007, it was intended to encourage space entrepreneurs to develop long-term business models...
April 2021
Satellites in the cloud: data from orbit
... services in the past, whether in satcom or Earth observation. With both incumbents (as well as other major CSPs such as Google and IBM) being experienced service providers to government and defence clients as well as commercial space companies, the...
