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FOREWORD
3 The road not taken - a political and
commercial crossroads
Managing industry and global expectations in a
climate of political unpredictability
Clive Simpson
,ManagingEditor,
ROOM- The Space Journal
8 Cloudless Europe in hi-definition
Spectacular Sentinel-2 image of Europe combining
over eight trillion pixels
SPECIAL REPORT
10 Sky-fi - dawn of the space internet era
Only 39% of the world’s population has internet
access - ‘sky-fi’ could change that
László Bacsárdi
, Institute of Informatics and
Economics, University of Sopron, Hungary
16 Mega challenges for mega constellations
Satellite mega-constellations raise concerns about
space environment
Holger Krag
, ESA’s Space Debris, Office, ESA/ESOC,
Darmstadt, Germany