May 2024
The challenges of satellite communications on the move
... is still in general use today, offering many channels of broadcast entertainment via fixed satellite communication links. The first geostationary satellite, Syncom 3, was launched in 1964. Simple, low-cost, mass-produced receiving terminals...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
..., which could lead to devastating and irreversibly extreme weather. Space Tech companies in the Earth observation, satellite communications and IoT (Internet of Things) spheres are rushing in to monitor, measure and track changes on Earth as space...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
... They, in partnership with Lockheed Martin, announced a service aimed at combining the power of space communications and the cloud by co-locating satellite communications antennas with AWS data-centres. While spurring much debate and discussion among...
May 2022
Using space data to improve life on Earth
... computing industries. Since our applications would all be software-defined, it also meant we could continuously improve our satellites, even after they had been launched, through on-orbit software upgrades. Spire is vertically integrated, with both...
March 2015
Ka-band satellite communication and lowering the price of VSATs
... since 6 April 1965 and the launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite. In that time three technological revolutions in satellite communication have occurred right before my eyes. All three were connected with mastering new...
September 2019
Extending the life of geostationary orbit satellites
...aeronautical, maritime and government customers. Geostationary orbit (GEO) is an especially favourable orbit for satellite communications, because satellites in GEO appear from the ground to be stationary. However, gravitational forces exerted by the...
