36,000 kms into space, foreign satellites are snooping around commercial satellites. Nobody in the West knows why, but a Sydney start-up is trying to find out.
The funds will get cameras into space to photograph roaming satellitesA sharp rise in the number of foreign satellites mysteriously sidling up to commercial satellites 36,000 kilometres above the earth has led a Sydney start-up to return to investors to raise funds to help deal with the problem.
which, unlike most cameras circling the earth, are pointed towards other satellites, to help minimise collisions with space junk and assist with maintenance. HEO’s software platform has commercial, governmental and military applications. But demands from commercial customers to get cameras into distant orbit, to figure out why foreign-owned satellites kept encroaching on their geostationary satellites, meant HEO had to expand more rapidly than it planned, requiring a fresh injection of funds.
Geostationary orbit is one of the most distant orbits for satellites. It requires satellites to hover 35,786 km above the equator, so they circle the Earth once every 24 hours, making them appear to observers on the ground like they’re not moving at all.
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