... unknown. No one was injured during the explosion, but both the Falcon 9 rocket and the Amos-6 communication satellite were destroyed. “SpaceX can confirm that in preparation for today’s static fire, there was an anomaly on the...
... as a radio telescope for a novel Dutch/Chinese collaboration. Meaning "magpie bridge" in Chinese, Queqiao, the once communications relay satellite stationed on the far side of the Moon is now the Netherlands-China Low Frequency Explorer (NCLE...
... Dean of the International Space University (ISU) in Strasburg, France. He has worked at NASA, the Communications Satellite Corporation, served as Director of Strategy Planning for Intelsat, and headed the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program...
... a piece of debris passed by. At around the same time, an operational American commercial satellite (Iridium 33) and an inactive Russian communications satellite (Kosmos 2251) collided approximately 790 km above the Earth, resulting in their total...
.... Currently we build a lot of space technology for science - from the International Space Station (ISS) through to communication satellites - but we still build it in a cottage industry type way. What we now need are factories building modular...
... Effective Space’s SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft into orbit in 2020. Built specifically to prolong the working life of communication satellites already in orbit, the SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft is a small (1m x 1m x 1.25m), 400-kilogram spacecraft that locks...