The southern hemisphere is a very stormy place. The winds at different degrees of latitude are described as the “roaring forties”, “furious fifties” and...

The image of a polar bear stranded on melting sea ice is often used as a symbol of the world’s rapidly changing climate. Yet...

Finnair made this announcement: Since Russia closed its airspace on February 28, we have had to find alternative routes for our Asian flights. If your flight is operated over the North Pole, we will reward you with a Northern route diploma, which was also handed out back in the 1980s. On March 9, 2022, flight […]

On Monday, February 28, 2022 Russia closed its airspace as a countermeasure to EU airspace closure. This meant many changes to Finnair’s Asian services, as most of Finnair’s flights between Europe and Asia have used the shortest, fastest, and most environmentally sound route over Russia. In the new situation, our traffic planning and operations teams […]

Kongsberg Satellite Services is providing ground network support for the Lunar InfraRed Imaging mission.

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Small satellite constellations provide valuable communications links in the wake of natural disasters, according to speakers at the SmallSat Symposium here.

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Space Norway has restored communications on an undersea fiber-optic cable it operates between its Svalbard satellite station and mainland Norway, which had left the Arctic region without a backup connection after failing Jan. 7.

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Space Norway said Jan. 13 it expects to start repairing next month one of two undersea fiber-optic cables it operates between its Svalbard satellite station and mainland Norway, after a failure left the Arctic region without a backup connection.

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Far up north, nestled between the polar night and the midnight sun sits the single runway of Svalbard…