More and more satellites are populating the sky nowadays in the Low Earth orbits (LEO).
Most of the targeted applications are related to broadband and narrowband …

Satellites are an essential aspect of our modern society and have contributed significantly to
the way we live today, most notable through modern telecommunications, global positioning …

This study applies satellite constellations in Internet of Things (IoT) communications,
specifically within low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies in the NewSpace …

A framework to exploit megaconstellation low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite signals of
opportunity for navigation is developed. This framework, termed simultaneous tracking and …

After almost 300 CubeSats were sent to space in 2017, the following 3 years saw a
continued decline. While 2021 set a new record of about 326 nanosatellites launched, most …

The field of small launchers continues to grow, but there may be some signs of a slowdown.
NewSpace Index (www. newspace. im) has been tracking small launch vehicles since 2016 …

Long-term, continuous, and real-time streamflow records are essential for understanding
and managing freshwater resources. However, we find that 37% of publicly available global …

New in-space economy fields are emerging. The nascent space industries include human
spaceflight, satellite servicing, orbital transfer vehicles, commercial space stations, in-space …

Mapping soil organic matter (SOM) content has become an important application of digital
soil mapping. In this study, we processed all Sentinel-2 images covering the bare-soil period …

This paper studies the beamforming strategies of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
Starlink low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Applying a maximum likelihood (ML) estimation …