by Blaine Curcio | Aug 29, 2019 | Stuff in Orbit
Building Smallsats blocks from the Imperial Palace By Blaine Curcio August 29, 2019 The small satellite (smallsat) industry and related value chain is a wild west of New Space companies. Startups in the industry have business models that fall along a wide spectrum of...
by Blaine Curcio | Aug 13, 2019 | Space Money
Belt-Road Initiative, Chinese Space Station By Blaine Curcio & Omkar Nikam August 13, 2019 1 First Chinese Astronaut, Yang Liwei, photographed during a training session on September 27, 2003 [Image Credits: http://thecharlestendellshow.com China is unleashing its...
by Blaine Curcio | Aug 2, 2019 | Stuff in Orbit
Checking In on the LEO-HTS Constellations By Blaine Curcio August 2, 2019 Credit: 2019 SpaceX Over the past several years, as the new generation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) High Throughput Satellites (HTS) has evolved from concept to the early stages of reality, I have...
by Blaine Curcio | Jul 26, 2019 | Beyond Earth Orbit
JAXA’s Peregrine Falcon Gathers Stardust from Dragon Palace By Blaine Curcio July 26, 2019 Figure 1 Hayabusa2 Spacecraft, Source: Go Miyazaki Lots of space missions have names and characters that would make great children’s stories. Take for example China’s Chang’e...
by Blaine Curcio | Jul 19, 2019 | Stuff in Orbit
Knitting Together an Archipelago using Satellite By Blaine Curcio July 19, 2019 In early July 2019, Thales Alenia Space—a French/Italian aerospace giant—announced that the company had been awarded a contract to manufacture the “Satria” satellite, a 150 Gbps Ka-band...
