May 2024
Prioritising space solutions to accelerate sustainable development
... is what it means to embed ‘space by design’ into the fabric of an economy. But I would invite you to think a little bit further than this. We are all affected by current global challenges. Climate change is one of them; political stability...
October 2024
Virtualisation of the satellite sector
... satellites. High Throughput Satellite (HTS) platforms have increased bandwidth and performance and lowered price-per-bit. Payloads are now often software-defined, highly flexible and configurable in orbit with steerable and splitable...
13 March 2015
Ceres breakthrough: NASA's Dawn is first probe to visit a dwarf planet
... in that when other people appreciate what Dawn did, we will doing a lot more of this. It takes a little bit of extra time, but it's safer and cheaper, and that's important. Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall and...
03 July 2015
Progress departs for ISS as two previous failures have world on edge
... Houston Chronicle, expressed the general ethos that has accompanied this latest Progress mission – it was all a bit too close for comfort, particularly considering the difficulties faced by the Russian space program in recent years...
25 August 2015
NASA’s Dawn gets up close and personal with Ceres: stunning conical mountain revealed in detail
... Dawn. Of particular interest is the dramatic, conical mountain on Ceres that Dawn snapped. This mountain is just a little bit shorter than Mt. Everest. What particularly makes the mountain stand out is just how small Ceres truly...
29 October 2015
NASA’s SLS rocket: CDR completed, but budget questions remain
... own CDR back in August). The first crewed flight of SLS and Orion is likely to happen in 2023 – which is a bit farther away than the original plan of conducting it in August of 2021. The delay is happening due to financial reasons...
