NSR’s Government Spending on Space (GSoS) report sees Earth Observation as one of the highest priority interest items for new space players. Governments are interested in exploration across all regions however exploration tends to be a focus for more established space nations.
Facing fierce competition from SpaceX, traditional satellite network operators see the urgent call to secure their relevance in the 5G era.
Give the challenges around the rollout of 5G, it’s understandable if 6G provokes a queasy feeling. But like seasickness, the best solution is to keep an eye on the horizon.
Constellations spoke with Giovanni Pandolfi Bortoletto, the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Leaf Space, headquartered in Milan, Italy, at the Small Sat conference in Logan, Utah. While as-a-Service offerings have been around for some time in the IT world, it is a concept relatively new to space and even newer to European space.
Version 1.2 of the Digital IF Interoperability Standard introduces synchronized timing and flow control, improving efficiency and flexibility in space networks and airborne connectivity by enabling better timing mechanisms from the network edge to local service chains.
The Sept. 2 launch of 13 U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) satellites leaves brings to 23 the number of Tranche 0 Transport and Tracking spacecraft in orbit. All these missile detection and tracking satellites are equipped with optical communications terminals (OCTs), which SDA has repeatedly said is a key development goal for its Proliferated Warfare Space Architecture.
Space and airborne laser communications terminal (LCT) builder Mynaric AG reported a backlog of 348 units as of April 27, up from the backlog of 256 terminals as of Dec. 31. Germany-based Mynaric is one of several companies under contract to the U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to test lasers on relatively small satellites in low Earth orbit.
The fragile-looking device rested precariously inside its plexiglass case, overlooking the five teams competing in Hack-A-Sat 4, the first hacking competition involving a live satellite.
The employment pages across commercial space companies show just how much demand and competition exist for skills in a growing industry.
