March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... far. The Space Shuttles had retired and NASA’s first follow-on programme to revive human spaceflight, the Constellation Program (CxP), had been cancelled due to a cost estimate of US$145 billion, an increase of nearly 50 percent to stay on schedule...
April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
... The number of satellites in orbit is expected to grow exponentially in the coming years with thousands of satellites from mega-constellations coming online. In fact, we are tracking about 200 companies planning to launch more than 100,000 satellites...
September 2017
Space nation set to mark its presence in orbit
... Earth and the Asgardian satellite through NSL’s EyeStar S2 Simplex and Duplex radios and Globalstar’s 30 satellite constellation, regardless of the satellite’s position in orbit. “There is nothing and nobody standing between us apart from the idea...
March 2019
Urgent action needed to avert space debris threat
... fact is that space is already crowded - and it’s getting worse. With multiple low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation launches planned in the coming months and years, the number of satellites in orbit could grow at a staggering pace...
April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
...-funded research has suggested more than 30 small satellite operators plan to launch low Earth orbit (LEO) constellations before 2030, amounting to more than 7000 potential satellites However, the UK’s location with respect to its neighbours...
January 2020
Open source space sustainability
... one of its Aeolus spacecraft from colliding with Starlink 44, one of the first 60 satellites launched in SpaceX’s mega constellation, planned to be 12,000-strong by the mid-2020s. Manoeuvres use fuel, thereby diminishing the useful life of the...
