March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... TESS). The Twinkle satellite will be built in the UK and launched into a low-Earth, sun-synchronous orbit by 2019, using a platform designed by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd and a payload built by a consortium of UK institutes led by UCL [8]. The...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
... vehicle into lunar orbit on the deep space exploration system’s first mission, Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), scheduled for 2019. Largely a test flight, EM-1 will verify and validate new systems and operations and provide valuable data...
April 2018
Future Cubesat swarms pose significant communications challenges
... CubeSats) were in the ‘Technology’ category but this shrinks to 14 percent in the SpaceWorks market forecast for 2017-2019 with ‘Earth Observation/Remote Sensing’ forecast to increase to 64 percent. SpaceWorks’ projections (see top of p45) show that...
January 2020
A year of consolidation and expansion
... digital sessions, the Parliament of Asgardia the Space Nation met physically for the second time in November 2019 - on this occasion in the northern European city of Tallinn, Estonia. Asgardia’s Chair of Parliament, Lembit Öpik, reviews the...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... Rocket Lab for contributing to the orbital debris problem. Instead of inspiration, they saw pollution.” Then, in early 2019, the Russian company Orbital Display proposed a constellation of a hundred CubeSats in a 400 km LEO that would unfurl...
April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
... the market for satellite servicing in his article ‘Extending the life of geostationary orbit satellites, (ROOM #21, Autumn 2019), the company’s MEV-1 was just about to launch from Baikonur, in Kazakhstan, in what turned out to be a picture-perfect...
