Questions tagged [commercial]
Questions regarding space activities or services performed by private entities for commercial interests/the gain of money.
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What is the purpose of geosynchronous communications satellites?
This question's sole answer Is it true, that commercial communications satellites account for the largest share of commercially used satellites? explains that:
the vast majority of the satellites in ...
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Is Blue Origin redundant?
Blue Origin was founded in 2000, SpaceX in 2002. But so far, Blue Origin has only conducted Sub-orbital launches while SpaceX has launched high profile missions like DART. Can Blue Origin actually do ...
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Is there evidence whether SpaceX is making a profit launching rockets?
Since SpaceX is privately held, I'm not able to find information about whether they are actually turning a profit on their launches of reusable rockets. (Perhaps they are conducting launches, but at a ...
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Can New Shepard launch from Texas and deliver payload (people) to Florida?
Can New Shepard be used as transportation instead of a joy ride?
Is there any meaningful flight where you launch from Texas, and land somewhere nearby like California or Florida?
If it can't be done ...
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How were Intelsat 1 “Early Bird” and Telstar 1's "hundreds" of simultaneous telephone conversations multiplexed/demultiplexed?
When did they stop routing long-distance analog phone calls through satellites? What was the maximum volume at its peak? contains images, sources and descriptions of both
The Intelsat 1 “Early Bird” ...
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What did Intelsat-1 do in 1990 for its 25th anniversary brief reactivation? Could it be reactivated again? Is there a secret code?
Ouch! The 1960s
From This Is What Broadband Satellite Communication Looked Like in 1965
The Intelsat 1 “Early Bird” communications satellite, built by Hughes Aircraft Co., was able to relay 240 ...
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Who designed the cool-looking Orbita Molniya tracking station at Khabarovsk? What does it look like inside?
Wikipedia's Orbita (TV system) says:
Orbita (Russian: орбита) is a Soviet-Russian system of broadcasting and delivering TV signals via satellites. It is considered to be the first national network of ...
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Launch excapse system for satellite payloads? [duplicate]
Once a rocket lifts off, there is usually no abort mode that does not involve the destruction of the rocket, and on a satellite launch, the payload.
Therefore, expendeble satellite launchers are quite ...
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How big will a space billboard have to be to be visible?
So recently there's been the news story about how SpaceX is launching a billboard to space (space billboards are an approximately bi-annual occurrence). This "billboard" is a cubesat that ...
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Is there a record for unbroken series of "successful launches" by some objective criteria? Who has it now? What has to happen for it to change hands?
From the (I'd say) historic and pivotal hearing Wednesday, March 5, 2014 Defense Subcommittee (Chairman Durbin) Time and Location: 10:00 a.m., in Room SD-192 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building ...
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Psyche & others will use Maxar 1300 series platform; are these the first instances of a commercial communications satellite bus sent to deep space?
Maxar's own blogpost Power and Propulsion Element: Five Questions with Maxar’s Tim Cole links to it's 1300 series platform page which says:
The SSL 1300 is the world’s most popular spacecraft ...
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Do you know a rocket for launching femto and pico satellites smaller than the SS-520?
The question has already been asked here why no one has built a rocket to launch one CubeSat.
Why isn't there a rocket to launch a single cubesat?
If there "won't be" rockets to ...
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Bishop airlock: explanation of the name?
Nanoracks' new Bishop Airlock will soon be installed on Node 3 and will provide some cool operational capabilities.
But, I don't get the name. This Verge article says
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How should we point our SpaceX Starlink ground transceiver antennas?
I don't have one of course, but I see that the Starlink ground transceiver antennas are flat but "pointable" to some extent. I assume but don't know for sure that there's at least some kind ...
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Are there active proposals for the next large space station (post-ISS) to use artificial gravity?
The ISS has supported a crewed presence in space for twenty years now and while parts have been added over time, key original components are 20+ years old.
Crewed presence is usually limited to a half-...
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