March 2022
Smoothing the journey to space with the satellite-as-a-service model
...to provide test and development platforms for a wide array of possible software solutions. Inter-satellite communications and distributed-instrument satellite missions will need actual space hardware to fully qualify any software components. Maritime...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... Cambodia in 2021 with plans to integrate BeiDou equipment into the Cambodian logistics and transportation sectors. In the satellite communications sector, China has made it clear that it plans to launch a LEO broadband constellation, and state-owned...
September 2023
Satellite manufacturing - building to size, speed and security
... and Bob Twiggs who developed the CubeSat standard widely used by the small satellite community. Together, we aimed to set the foundation for small satellite solutions. Size has, by definition, been a key factor in the smallsat revolution. To match...
October 2023
The impact of weather on Ka-band frequencies
...About the author John Yates is CEO of Atheras Analytics and has 35 years’ experience in the commercial satellite communications sector. After completing a BSc (Hons) in Electrical Engineering and Electronics at the University of Nottingham and a post...
October 2024
Virtualisation of the satellite sector
... using virtualised products from vendors. Virtualisation is also steadily being adopted for satellite communications as well”. Satcoms Innovation Group Standards The satellite sector lags behind the telco sector by around a decade in this regard. The...
10 March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
... with MediaMobil/SASS@Sea Development of the world’s poorest countries is empowered through access to communications technology via satellite communications. Through satcoms, developing nations have immediate access to some of the world’s most...
