satellites

Space jam: How a boom in satellites endangers global communications

It was a few minutes before midnight on 10 February 2009 when Kosmos 2251 silently annihilated Iridium 33. Travelling at…

Space is the next battleground for cloud computing giants

New satellite technology has triggered a space race between the so-called 'hyperscalers' – cloud providers with global scale such as…

Satellite broadband is the future of the $1trn space economy

For all the disruptive potential of the internet, it still reflects many long-established global inequalities. According to data collected by…

Two Scottish-built Nano Size Satellites Successfully launched into Orbit

Two satellites built in Glasgow have successfully been launched into orbit from Sriharikota India. The satellites were both designed and…

UK Space Industry in Ambitious Push for £250 Billion Growth

UKspace, the trade association for the UK’s space industry, has published an ambitious growth plan for the sector that aims…