Collaborate Disseminate
This year has been quite a ride for OneWeb and its globe-connecting constellation of low Earth orbiting broadband satellites. After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March with just 74 of its initial planned 648 satellites in orbit, the company was r… Continue reading OneWeb emerges from bankruptcy, launching 36 more broadband satellites
Another couple of weeks, and a fresh crop of space news to run through as a quick briefing of the latest in the skies above us.
The global positioning orbits are getting pretty crowded, with GPS, Russia’s GLONASS, the EU’s Galileo, Japan’s QZSS, and now with the launch of the …read more
Continue reading Spacing Out; OneWeb Rescue, Starlink Base Stations, And Rocket Tests
How Iridium rose from its ashes to launch the era of satellite megaprojects. Continue reading The Making of the Largest Satellite Constellation in History
Over the last decade or so the definition of what a ‘small satellite’ is has ballooned beyond the original cubesat design specification to satellites of 50 or 100 kg. Today a ‘smallsat’ is defined far more around the cost, and sometimes the technologies used, than the size and shape of the box that goes into orbit.
There are now more than fifty companies working on launch vehicles dedicated to lifting these small satellites into orbit, and while nobody really expects all of those to survive the next few years, it’s going to be an interesting time in the launcher market. …read more
