16 June 2016
SpaceX Successfully Launches All-Electric Satellites; Loses First Stage in Landing Attempt
... in March 2015. Both satellites, the Eutelsat 117 and the ABS-2A, are now in orbit and sending signals. The satellites were ...launch comes at a time of transition for both Eutelsat and ABS. Eutelsat is has suffered weak first-quarter earnings and has ...
31 May 2016
ABS put up for sale by Permira
...They put I a big chunk of new equity, which gave us the financing to do the ABS-2, ABS-2A and ABS-3A satellites.” At the time of purchase by Permira in 2010, ABS fleet counted 103 transponders. The 2010 purchase price was $242 million. As of December...
June 2018
Publish or perish: the astronomer’s dilemma
... members, two post docs, one PhD and two Master’s students. The study (https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08033) was complemented by an analysis of annual reports and evaluation documents, and this article summarises the...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
... written the 2016 Dawes Review paper ‘The impact of companions on stellar evolution’, available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03542 and http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?arXiv:1611.03542 About the...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... Space 2011 Conference Expo., Long Beach, California, 27-29 Sept. 2011 URL: http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2011-7112
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... advocated the 80 km as an appropriate boundary based on orbital and suborbital trajectories of space vehicles (https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07894). On the other hand, reporting of the 86 km-high Virgin Galactic flight included the phrase “to the ...
