by Blaine Curcio | Feb 20, 2020 | Launch, Stuff in Orbit
Arianespace Lofts Satellites For Japan and Korea By Blaine Curcio February 20, 2020 Credit Arianespace --- Arianespace’s February 18 success with Ariane 5 was performed at the service of SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute...
by Blaine Curcio | Dec 18, 2019 | Space Agencies, Stuff in Orbit
China Space in 2019 By Blaine Curcio December 18, 2019 2019 in China—Year in Review It’s been a busy year in the Chinese space industry, one in which we have seen record-breaking valuations and funding rounds, new company creation and increased internationalization,...
by Blaine Curcio | Nov 24, 2019 | Stuff in Orbit
Satellites for Nations: The Dawn of a New Era By Blaine Curcio November 24, 2019 The GEO Belt--About to Get Company from Small GEOs For decades, there have been two main sources of demand for communications satellites—commercial satellite operators, and national...
by Blaine Curcio | Oct 4, 2019 | Stuff in Orbit
Breaking Up The C-Band By Blaine Curcio October 4, 2019 Everybody's Got a Broken Heart, Including the CBA The Basics The C-band Alliance (CBA) has its genesis in a proposal by Intelsat, in partnership with Intel, in late 2017 that outlined a way to repurpose...
by Blaine Curcio | Sep 8, 2019 | Space Money, Stuff in Orbit
The satellite communications industry was, for some time, built on the C-band, a piece of the radiofrequency spectrum lower than Ku-band or X-band, but higher than L-band or S-band. And yet, even among a community of space industry people, the phrase C-band may not be...
