FUTURE OF SATELLITES: Future of the satellites is very sounding but one have to wonder how these big giant machines will work and how these will perform all I understand is that the new upcoming satellites will work in a pattern similar to PC technology. Like in a network of operations what the satellites do is that they individually do the assigned tasks and then they all network the work into one unit these will eventually save a lot of cost and satellites will work on the prescribed lines more effectively. This will one day be seen as clusters forming in the sky of satellites.
One more issue that will come up in the nod of the future satellites is the assembling of the units here on the earth or in space as if we will be able to assemble satellites in space this will be a boon for the scientists and the governments as it will save the cost of rockets. But man cant be left for assembling in space so robotics will come to shore of assembling this units and we have to think how these small robots will assemble big satellites. So developing the core satellites we have to think for the alternatives for speeding up the process of assembling and make the satellites set in motion.
Another thing could be of making satellites on small chips.
Satellites will become the part and parcel of our lives in the coming future as we will be moving towards a generation that will be living on the systems that will move on the satellite technology and we will also like to use GPS systems everywhere we want.
I think we are moving to a environment full of dangers as the climate is increasing very fast so satellites will be boon for the mankind too as the disasters will be well known before they happen so the satellite technology has to reach every sphere of the life to process and save our lives and our time and energy.