April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... with the use of artificial intelligence are still in the future. LEO satellite constellations are the truly global option. Depending on the type of constellation in place, they can cover the whole of planet Earth continuously. Satellites offer...
01 August 2023
Report predicts continued growth of smallsat market
... the 10-year period, according to Euroconsult, the leading global strategy consulting and market intelligence firm. Two constellations alone - Starlink (SpaceX) and GuoWang (China SatNet) - will collectively account for nearly two-thirds of smallsats...
January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
... or around 600 billion smart meters. Incumbent SatCom operators like Iridium, which finished replacing its original constellation by sending 75 new Iridium satellites into space this year, have been providing connectivity services for decades...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
...stage of investment, which is centred around platforms - the constellations in space that collect and disseminate data. We expect that ...Spire Global, which has a hundred-satellite constellation for weather observations that currently produces five-day...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
...space assets, in some areas. As an example, China recently completed deployment of its third-generation BeiDou satellite navigation constellation. While this will need to be replenished, that will occur towards the end of the decade. Similar dynamics...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... technologies and will see a significant increase in capacity and modalities in the coming year. First, Maxar’s Legion constellation will be able to deliver high resolution optical imagery with revisit rates up to 15 times per day for monitoring...
