by David Todd | Mar 23, 2016 | Science, Technology
The Daily Telegraph and the BBC Horizon programme have reported on a scientific development that is regarded as break though new detection technology: a method detecting tiny fluctuations in gravity. British scientists of the Porton Down military science...
by David Todd | Mar 22, 2016 | exploration, Satellites, Science, Technology
The Emirates Mars mission orbiter HOPE will be sent on its voyage initially by a Japanese H-2A rocket flying from Tanegashima in Japan. The spacecraft was booked on a flight to take place in 2020. The mission is owned and operated by the United Arab Emirates Space...
by David Todd | Mar 10, 2016 | Satellites, Technology
After Intelsat announced a multi year contract with broadband provider, Gogo, to provide aviation data services to passenger jets using the OneWeb LEO and Intelsat Epic GEO spacecraft constellations in February, Inmarsat has countered by noting that it expects to...
by David Todd | Mar 9, 2016 | exploration, Satellites, Technology
Speaking towards the end of the satellite manufacturers’ forum at Satellite 2016 in Washington D.C. in March, Paul Estey, VP Engineering, Manufacturing and Test Operations at California-based but Canadian-owned Space Systems/Loral, casually mentioned that the company...
by David Todd | Mar 9, 2016 | Satellites, Technology
Participating in the Satellite 2016 conference CEOs’ session in March, satellite operator Telesat’s CEO Daniel Goldberg declared that he used to be a LEO sceptic, given its poor historic experience within the commercial space industry. However now he thinks that...
by David Todd | Mar 9, 2016 | Satellites, Technology
Speaking at the Satellite 2016 conference in Washington D.C. in early March, the Chairman and CEO of Viasat Inc, Mark Dankberg, gave an upbeat assessment of the ability of the satellite communications industry to compete in the consumer broadband market. Dankberg...
