November 2018
Monitoring illegal rainforest deforestation
... we consider a GSD of 1.5 m so that a road 2 m wide will have a detection confidence higher than 50 percent. Satellite constellation coverage illustration. Operational system Ninety-five percent of deforestation occurs at 5.5 km from roads and about...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
...is a huge opportunity for the UK to integrate ‘downstream’ business demand with rapid ‘upstream’ manufacturing supply of satellite constellations Lowering the cost of access to space is a key challenge that the spaceports will fulfil in part. However...
16 October 2019
SpaceX files request to launch 30,000 more Starlink satellites
... in-progress OneWeb and Globalstar internet networks along with Amazon's recently announced Project Kuiper satellite internet. “Satellite constellations can pose a significant or debilitating threat to important existing and and future astronomical...
07 October 2020
Chinese company seeks approval to launch nearly 13,000 satellites
... of the initiative. China are already planning three low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations; Hongyun, which plans 864 satellites; Hongyan, which plans around 320 satellites, and Galaxy Space. While these three are oriented toward broadband...
April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... that might be gained with the use of artificial intelligence are still in the future. LEO satellite constellations are the truly global option. Depending on the type of constellation in place, they can cover the whole of planet Earth continuously...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... and each is about one hundreth of the cost of the next cheapest SAR satellite. Another example is Spire Global, which has a hundred-satellite constellation for weather observations that currently produces five-day forecasts more accurate than...
