May 2019
Wake-up call for debris creation in geostationary orbit
... Treaty, is “the common heritage of mankind” Two months later, on 25 August 2017, another communications satellite, Telkom 1 servicing Indonesia, experienced what Gunter Krebs (of Gunter’s Space Page) described as “a massive debris shedding event...
September 2019
Space cybersecurity - why we mustn’t forget the basics
...) Better/cheaper space qualified designs allow hosting of anyone’s idea in space Satellite connectivity is much more mainstream Satellites as a service and constellations as a service with time-based access to dynamically reprogrammable payloads. The...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... have been cleaned, even with the international programme clean’Space designed to capture and take old satellites out of service. And yet this technological weakness of our society was known. Lunar future. Climate forecasting The...
April 2021
Norway’s pioneering use of microsatellites
... space was possible, and that a small and cost-effective satellite could handle this operational job. It made Norway a pioneer in using small satellites for operational services, and caught international interest and attention. The utility of AISSat...
August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
... technologies in Poland has been rising and, at the same time, the quality of the products and services utilising satellite technologies offered by Polish companies has greatly increased. In order for Poland to effectively participate in and further...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
...used for meteorology and remote sensing, as well as telecommunication satellite constellations. There are currently about 1,200 operational satellites, or functional satellites delivering a service, of which 450 are operating in GEO. Most of the rest...
