19 February 2016
Test Masses of ESA's LISA Pathfinder Released Successfully
... by Airbus Defence and Space, will reduce the electrostatic force on the test masses, culminating in the science mode of operation, when no force is applied to one test mass along the axis connecting the two masses. The...
09 March 2016
Components of ExoMars 2016 come together in preparation of launch next week
... the Red Planet, where it will coast towards its destination during which phase it will remain in hibernation mode in order to reduce its power consumption. Schiaparelli will be activated a few hours before entering the atmosphere of Mars...
04 December 2017
After 37 years, Voyager 1 fires up dormant thrusters
... encounter with Saturn in November 1980. Back then, the TCM thrusters were used in a more continuous firing mode and they had never been used to orient the spacecraft. After firing up the four TCM thrusters...
27 April 2018
Another milestone for the SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft
... families, is already a leader in state-of-the-art propulsion technologies and the Arclight’s customisable in orbit service modes will assist the SPACE DRONE™ in completing its various mission phases. Speaking of the announcement, Stefan Hässler...
11 May 2018
Revolutionary X-Ray navigation system to be used on CubeSat mission
... of XNAV could help propel the technology to maturity. “This is a push to move the technology into the operational mode,” said SEXTANT Project Manager Jason Mitchell. “This is great opportunity for XNAV and showing its value...
27 July 2018
A pool of liquid water found under Mars' south pole
... over ways in which to improve upon information collected by the spacecraft, the team came up with a new operating mode to bypass some onboard processing. “Now we see things that simply were not possible before,” added Cicchetti...
