19 September 2019
Annual Global MilSatCom conference and exhibition returns to London
...-two presentation highlights for 2019: Integrating Commercial Bandwidth and Architectures to Military Communications Ms Clare Grason, Chief, Commercial Satellite Communications Office (CSCO), AFSPACE, US Air Force Go Global, Go Polar: From Spot Beams...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
...athome and abroad, can be considerable Smaller space players, such as Indonesia, Taiwan and Singapore, are pursuing satellite communications technology and other space applications with direct economic benefits, and appear less focused on science and...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
...it is in orbit. For example, there are four operating systems for personal satellite communications: Iridium, GlobalStar, Thuraya and Orbcomm. This equals 140 satellites in orbit at an investment cost of $15bn. There are about one million subscribers...
June 2015
Watching over alpine explorers
... or totally missing. To work around this, Sarontar uses satellite communication when terrestrial networks are unavailable. The rescuer is equipped with a handheld satellite modem. It communicates with the smartphone via Bluetooth and switches between...
August 2016
Are the days of innovation in global space over - or just beginning?
... markets and the world trading system all rely on global positioning technology and satellite communication to function. Of note, although many satellite launch companies are privately owned, or of public-private partnership status, the majority...
March 2021
Eyes on the prize
... are arising, including micro-launchers, miniaturisation, robotics, mega-constellations, and growing demand for satellite communications and Earth observation data from new AI-driven industries. If we choose to take it we have the opportunity...
