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...At that speed, a three-second gap would only leave room for about 1,000 satellites in each orbital shell, he calculated....
...to say we have invented an entirely new path than to say I have retrofitted a factory and it’s 30 per cent better,” says David Winter, co-chief executive of Standard Industries, which sells specialised insulation...
...BofA’s Jadrosich pointed to risks such as a recent increase in the price of insulation from supplier Owens Corning, which cited strong demand....
...Elon Musk’s SpaceX called off the first orbital launch test of its giant Starship rocket on Monday after a problem with fuel pressure in the rocket’s first stage delayed its long-awaited maiden flight to...
...She added that information gathered from the failed flight was likely to contribute to a successful orbital test of the Starship within the next year or two....
Governments have to reach for the stars to close the digital divide with satellites
...Congress shifted funding incentives and created a new policy (the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services programme) to encourage privatisation....
...SpaceX is preparing for its first orbital test launch of its Starship rocket system that Musk hopes could one day travel to Mars....
...Blaine Curcio, founder of specialist space technology research group Orbital Gateway, said “significant alarm in China” had been caused because SpaceX and Starlink were considered critical parts of the “...
...It wants detailed studies of how Starlink launches affect others, and more information on the technology behind the Gen2 satellites and on orbital spacing plans before the FCC agrees to SpaceX’s request....
...“Space will be much more restrictive [in terms of] frequencies and orbital slots,” he said in an interview with the Financial Times....
...The orbital launch company said this week that it had raised $228m from its listing, far less than the $483m it said it expected at the time the sale plan was announced....
...Protesters who block London’s orbital motorway could face prison after the operator of England’s trunk roads won an injunction banning further blockades by a climate change activist group....
...Satellites and beyond Starship’s first orbital flight, when it comes, will still reverberate through the space industry....
...But that leaves SpaceX and other private sector operators at the controls of orbital space....
...SpaceX is estimated to have raised nearly $7bn over its life, and generates substantial cash from its busy schedule of orbital launches....
...And, critically, few of them enjoy anything like Toshiba’s swaddling of deal-breaking, political insulation. Toshiba’s privatisation prospects may have evaporated for now....
...The relatively manageable number of domestic-focused stocks, the high volatility and the insulation from fluctuations in the yen makes it an ideal retail investor hunting ground....
...After manoeuvring both new and existing satellites into a new orbital position, Planet’s constellation of 21 SkySats will then be able to take photographs with up to 50cm resolution, allowing it to make...
...Speedway’s retail operations had provided some insulation from pressures in the main oil-processing business....
...Companies such as Spire Global and Iceye are using the same orbital vantage point to collect and analyse data about our planet....
...While China led the world with 34 orbital launch attempts, including two failures, in 2019, SpaceX alone accounted for 13 of the 21 US-based launches last year and successfully launched 21 times in 2018....
...Governments and the financial sector will have to mobilise resources on a vastly bigger scale to fund the creation of low-emission public transport networks, the shift to renewable energy sources and the insulation...
...Citigroup’s global bent may provide some insulation, especially its exposure to Asia. Check out the full story from the FT’s Laura Noonan and Rob Armstrong....
...The latter in particular should provide better insulation from the economic cycle. The biggest shift in strategy over the past decade has been away from property ownership....
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