The FCC Asked Cowboy Space How Big Its Satellites Are
Cowboy Space's 20,000-satellite Stampede filing implies 400,000 tonnes of hardware against a 3,193-tonne launch year. The FCC has no field for mass.
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SmallSat Europe Speaker Focus: Araz Feyzi, Kayhan Space
Araz Feyzi co-founded Kayhan Space to bring autonomous spaceflight safety tools to commercial and government operators. The company's Satcat platform tracks 60,000+ objects and has contracts with the DoD, Department of Commerce, and NASA. At SmallSat Europe, he delivers a Tech Brief on reentry data.
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ESA spells out satellite benefits – and risks
Chris Forrester — As a regular reader of this site you will no doubt be aware of the benefits that satellites give humanity. But a major study on April 30 […]
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How CubeSat Proliferation is Redefining Sovereignty and Diplomatic Leverage at the United Nations
The rapid democratization of orbital access, driven by the modular CubeSat standard, has fundamentally altered the power dynamics within the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space […]
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SmallSat Europe Speaker Focus: Chris Quilty, Quilty Space
Quilty Space Co-CEO and President Chris Quilty has shaped the satellite industry's understanding of market structure for two decades. At SmallSat Europe, he joins a panel examining whether orbital environmental services can become a real commercial business.
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SmallSat Europe Speaker Focus: Daniel Bock, Morpheus Space
Morpheus Space CEO and co-founder Daniel Bock built a modular electric propulsion company from a TU Dresden lab to orbit. At SmallSat Europe, he joins a panel asking whether orbital environmental services can become a real commercial market.
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SmallSat Europe Speaker Focus: Dr. Ane Aanesland, ThrustMe
ThrustMe CEO and co-founder Dr. Ane Aanesland has put 100 iodine propulsion systems in orbit and signed a €10 million Japanese contract. At SmallSat Europe, she joins a panel asking whether orbital environmental services will become a real business.
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FCC Proposes Assembly Line Licensing to Replace Decades-Old Space Rules
Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. Speaking at the SmallSat Symposium, Sheppard Mullin partner Drew Svor outlined the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to retire legacy Part 25 rules in favor of a modular system under Part 100. This proposal seeks to modernize a licensing process that has struggled to keep pace with soaring application volumes and increasingly complex mission profiles.
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Indra confirms ‘external impact’ on Spainsat NG-II; contingency plans activated
Indra Group has confirmed that the Spainsat NG-II secure communications satellite suffered a significant anomaly caused by an “external impact” while en route to its final geostationary orbital slot.
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Astroscale U.S. partners with NASA for RPO testing
Astroscale U.S., in collaboration with NASA Goddard, recently conducted a comprehensive, four-week, advanced testing campaign at Goddard’s state-of-the-art Servicing Technology Center (STC). This campaign was a series of simulations for […]
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