July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... mentioning Google’s Project Loon, and Facebook with its project Internet.org. Project Loon relies on a flotilla of high-altitude ... launched from New Zealand’s South Island and beamed the internet to a small group of pilot testers And it worked...
March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
... massive SSC constellations in 2014. Giants such as Facebook and Google announced their plans to provide satellite broadband internet, and SpaceX announced the creation of a Seattle branch that will work on SSC development. It is assumed that the...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
...head with Richard Branson’s OneWeb, as well as Google, Fidelity and SpaceX. Yaliny will deliver low-cost internet using 135 microsatellites and 9 reserve microsatellites. It’s headed up by Russian businessmen Vadim Teplyakov and Nikita Sherman, based...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... menace could knock out the time synchronization of the global Internet which is essential for it to continue to function day ...navigation and timing, weather forecasting, synchronising the Internet and assisting with aircraft take-off and landing ...
August 2016
Are the days of innovation in global space over - or just beginning?
..., however, is the extent to which Earth-bound technology has entered the realm of necessity. Populations demand internet connection as a ‘Human Right’; our powers of free expression and communication require the ability to communicate instantaneously...
January 2019
Is the NewSpace bubble about to burst?
... projects like its BFR heavy-lift rocket and Starlink, an ambitious plan to deliver high speed broadband internet via a network of satellites. SpaceX has also submitted a redesign of the Starlink constellation to the Federal Communications Commission...
