April 2019
LISA Pathfinder – paving the way for future studies of the gravitational universe
...be necessary. For mission operations, daily ground station contacts with one spacecraft are baselined to dump the constellation’s science data, check spacecraft health and perform routine commanding and any anomaly recovery operations. It is foreseen...
April 2021
Norway’s pioneering use of microsatellites
...-1 and -2 and NorSat-1 and -2 on 22 July 2017 at 11:24 UTC. New sensors on NorSat-3 and -4 The Norwegian AIS satellite constellation has proven its utility for maritime surveillance and operations, particularly in the Arctic The Norwegian AIS...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
...-production will considerably reduce manufacturing costs while allowing high-performance space applications. Furthermore, the constellations will make use of multiple orbit inclinations to gain global coverage. Small satellites in GEO with shorter...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
...while its Pallas rocket is being built to deploy entire constellations. Rival company iSpace, formed in 2016, became the first...feature three-metre resolution. Spacety wants to launch a constellation of these satellites to offer high-quality imaging at...
