..., last year Axiom Space became the first commercial company to announce it would be constructing its own station in low Earth Orbit that will serve as a home to microgravity experiments, critical space-environment materials testing, and private and...
... achieve these exciting goals. Approximately 750,000 pieces of space debris over one centimeter in diameter are orbiting the Earth, threatening the safety of active spacecraft. Given this active risk of space debris currently...
...of the Dream Chaser® spaceplane, a multi-mission space utility vehicle capable of transporting cargo - and eventually crew - to low Earth orbit. But there is more to the company than this. As Thomas Crabb, Robert Richter and Martin Chiaverini explain...
... past decade, the International Space Station partnership has continually addressed the future of research in - and exploitation of - low Earth orbit (LEO) beyond the lifetime of the ISS. At present, it seems likely that the Space Station will remain...
... path of the photons for most of the way down would solve the problem of signal losses. A satellite in a low earth orbit could easily act as a relay between different ground stations who wanted to communicate securely and wanted to share...
...of the Space Age, heralded by Sputnik 1 reaching low Earth orbit (LEO) in 1957, more than 6,000 successful launches... exponential increase in space debris due to chain collisions in low Earth orbit back in 1978, recognising that if such a scenario were...