26 February 2018
Space Architecture Education for Engineers and Architects
... becoming increasingly relevant as the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) continues to orbit Earth attached to the International Space.... Although this book was put together long before BEAM reached orbit and mentions Bigelow only in passing, ...
29 April 2020
NASA's new solar sail system to be tested on-board NanoAvionics' satellite
...aim of the ACS3 mission is to replace conventional rocket propellants by developing and testing solar sails using sunlight beams to thrust the nanosatellite. These solar sail propulsion systems are designed for future small interplanetary spacecrafts...
04 June 2020
Mega constellations and their impact on astronomy
... be needed in order to complete the same type of observation. Even radio observatories will not go unaffected as satellite constellations beam internet connectivity to the remote corners of Earth via radio frequencies that are very close to those set...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... with a pilot test in June 2013, when 30 balloons were launched from New Zealand’s South Island and beamed the internet to a small group of pilot testers And it worked: the cost of launching the Falcon 9 rocket by the...
December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
.... In the first study, a collaboration formed by NOVELTIS, ENEA and OHB, these concepts were4: WiRM, a wind pencil-beam scatterometer for wind resource assessment and offshore operations; GEM, a greenhouse gas (GHG) mission based on a SWIR...
March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
... positions and additionally radiate with different polarisation. Frequencies can be used even more effectively by using multi-beam antennas. For example, a Ka-Sat satellite builds up to 82 rays and one frequency can be reused up to 20 times. With...
