After a record-breaking turnout and tense counts in swing states, Democrat challenger Joe Biden beat Republican incumbent President Donald Trump in the US Presidential election. Although more votes were cast for Trump than in 2016, he was beaten by Biden both in the...
With only about a month to go to the US Presidential Election on 3 November, we assess President Donald J. Trump’s successes and failures. While he has made serious – sometimes disastrous – errors, Trump’s opponents and detractors may not like it, but he was not wrong...
Intelsat has updated its C-band transition plan with the FCC. On 14 August it outlined additions to the launch schedule for replacement satellites, including an intention to add non-C-band payloads to some of the new units, as well as a re-evaluation of the satellite...
SES, the Europe-based operator of a global satellite fleet, has selected two American launch companies to fly its C-band replacement satellites. The contracts, announced on 5 August 2020, outline a single dual-payload launch for United Launch Alliance (ULA) and up to...
On 3 July 2020, the European Space Agency (ESA), on-behalf of the European Commission, issued development contracts for six missions that will compliment and enhance the Copernicus Earth observation programme. These initial contracts, valued at EUR€2.55 billion...
With the Coronavirus Covid-19 now paralysing the world – and, by the way, parts of its space industry – let us hope that some good comes of all of this and that governments can learn from it. In fact, they would have been wiser to have learned from two...
