03 August 2016
Aladin gets ready for Aeolus
...By comparing these frequencies with the original laser, the winds below the satellite can be determined. Aladin will be housed on ESA’s Aeolus satellite – the first satellite to probe the wind on a global scale and one which will deliver measurements...
04 September 2019
A near miss as ESA and SpaceX satellites nearly collide
... from SpaceX’s Starlink constellation was starting to edge its way towards the agency’s Aeolus Earth observation satellite. The ‘news’ or rather data comes from a constant stream of information provided by the 18th Space Control Squadron of ...
18 October 2019
Companies unite to reject SpaceX satellite plans
... [SpaceX’s] on-call paging system” prevented SpaceX from avoiding a potential collision with an ESA Aeolus satellite, forcing the Aeolus satellite to perform a collision avoidance maneouver.” All of which leads OneWeb to conclude that SpaceX’s latest...
January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
... option to avoid a potential collision with a SpaceX Starlink satellite was firing the thrusters on its Aeolus satellite. It was the first time for ESA that it had to move a satellite to avoid colliding with a mega-constellation. The agency said...
