October 2020
Superconductors - key to unlocking high power space missions
... a prototype Microwave Electrothermal Thruster and worked on hollow cathode neutralisers for the RIT 2X ion thruster. In 2019, he co-founded NSS with Manuel. Georg Herdrich is a scientist, engineer, and expert on space-relevant plasmas. He is Head...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
...NASA’s return-to-the-Moon plans but the agency announced in 2019 that this approach was no longer a priority and that... integrated lunar lander instead (top). No specifics Nevertheless, in 2019, NASA had authorised Boeing to start work on 10 more core...
April 2021
Satellites in the cloud: data from orbit
... and services, thereby increasing the consumption of cloud services, whether for compute, storage or network capabilities. In mid-2019, Descartes Labs built the first system on the TOP500 fastest supercomputers list to run completely on public cloud...
March 2022
Smoothing the journey to space with the satellite-as-a-service model
...software-defined radio or optical communications equipment. Launched in 2019, ESA’s OPS-SAT mini-satellite is a technology ... participate in ESA’s OPS-SAT mission, launched in December 2019. Under his leadership, the company was accepted into the ...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...2021) and Mars (2014), but it was not until 2019 that the Indian space programme developed an explicit military dimension ... American shoot down of NROL 21 (2008); the Indian test (2019) and then the Russian Nudol explosion (2021). Moreover, they make...
February 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
...than 10 commercial remote sensing satellites annually but the introduction of support policies helped commercial players. Between 2019 and 2021, the annual commercial remote sensing satellites that were launched were 21, 13 and 36 respectively, while...
