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Elon Musk, la grande enquête (1/3) : la naissance d’un prophète
Qui ne connaît pas le milliardaire, ses fusées, ses bolides électriques, son rêve martien, ses envies d’homme augmenté ? Mais qui connaît vraiment l’homme, génial et instable, tyrannique et messianique ? Premier épisode de notre enquête.
Space company Satellogic to go public via Cantor Fitzgerald SPAC at $1.1 billion valuation
CNBC: Satellite Earth imagery specialist Satellogic is preparing to go public, announcing on Tuesday that it will be the latest in a string of space companies merging with SPACs.
Op-ed | The maritime connectivity market after COVID-19
Smart Maritime Network: The cruise sector was severely impacted by the pandemic, causing the number of active VSAT terminals to decline.
Op-ed | Universal Broadband: Is Satellite Key to Bridging the Digital Divide?
Via Satellite: Following the widespread effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that has impacted the daily lives of billions of people in the past year, the world is in a critical moment in history with regards the development of the broadband ecosystem and accelerated efforts to bridge the digital divide. Access to broadband services is increasingly recognized as a driver of economic growth, as it contributes to a country’s education and political systems.
Op-ed | Assessment + Forecast: The Small Satellite Market
SatMagazine: Mega-constellations, resilient to the COVID-19 pandemic, are set to increasingly concentrate smallsat market shares. In fact, Euroconsult anticipates that about 13,910 satellites of less than 500 kg will be launched in the next ten years, according to the company’s latest smallsat analysis and report.
Op-ed | Big Data gaining ground with Earth Observation operators
spacenews: Big Data is boosting Earth Observation demand, creating new applications and changing traditional business models. As a disruptive innovation, it keeps changing the way EO data is being used. Technologies are no longer the only driver of innovation; this is about how, with innovations being combined, the ecosystem is rapidly maturing — and so are the solutions.
Op-ed | Is Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) only a matter of resolution?
SAR Journal: Over the past 5 years, disruptive constellation projects have emerged and completely changed the way SAR is being used, promoting access to new end-user communities, and opening up new applications. “Two key historical barriers have been overcome for SAR Imaging to break into the mainstream commercial market: the cost of data and processing complexity” said Alexis Conte, Editor of the Earth Observation Data and Services Market research report and Senior Consultant at Euroconsult.
Government Space Budgets Surge Despite Global Pandemic
Via Satellite: Government space budgets grew 10 percent in 2020 compared to 2019, demonstrating the highest yearly budget growth since 2009, according to Euroconsult’s Government Space Programs 2020 report, published in December 2020. Global government space budgets totaled $82.5 billion in 2020, and COVID-19 had no visible effect in 2020 as the pandemic occurred with budgets already in place. The 2000s were marked by rapid space budget growth before a flattening in 2010 as public finances came under pressure, due to the global financial crisis as well as defense budgets downcycling. Growth has resumed since 2015, and 2020 represented a historic high for government space budgets. But their sustainability post-COVID remains to be seen.
Orbit Congestion Encouraging the Growth of a Commercial SSA Market – By Charlotte Croison, Consultant, Euroconsult
SatMagazine: Space is no longer a void. Unprecedented quantities of new objects are launched every month in orbit which, when they collide or simply reach their end of life, become imminent dangers for the space assets of all countries and commercial companies. Threatening the future of space activities, this tragedy of the commons of a new kind is however likely to encourage the emergence of a commercial Space Situational Awareness (SSA) market.
Op-ed | Hyperspectral to diversify constellation projects: The new El Dorado?
Geospatial World: Commercial hyperspectral is entering the market with the first two low-cost satellite systems having already been deployed. The main challenge is the same as for optical multispectral or SAR constellations – to build cost-effective systems that can provide high-revisit data for building change detection analytics. More specifically for hyperspectral systems, the challenge lies in finding the sweet spot between spatial and spectral resolution, as well as the number of bands and the right spectrum bands to create new commercial applications.
