February 2022
A new legal system for space
... with the Space Nation since 2017, having been introduced to it at the World Economic Forum by the owner of a satellite company. He was excited about the way in which Asgardia had pushed the boundaries on issues such as extraterritoriality, and...
January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
... This summer, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) also announced that it will be launching a constellation of 72 satellites, via private satellite company Commsat, to help the nation strengthen its IoT efforts over the next three years. The focus...
October 2024
Virtualisation of the satellite sector
... need for virtualisation is now widely accepted across the industry”. The term ‘virtualisation’ is a new one for satellite companies, but the realisation that this is something that must be mastered now has permeated quickly in an industry that...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... in 2014), although it also hopes to use rockets to deliver packages from one terrestrial location to another. Spacety, a small satellite company, founded in 2016, wants to turn around customer orders to build and launch its small...
October 2019
Reusability is key to expanding future space launch business
...plans. Ultimately, Blue Origin is a space transportation company; we are, at our heart, a space propulsion company. We are not a constellation satellite company, though obviously launching satellites and payloads is really important to us. We believe...
September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
... fashion and levied like taxes on our cyber infrastructure As we witness several satellite companies begin to deploy their proliferated LEO satellite constellations it is evident that there is a desire to make effective use of automation for...
