28 June 2021
Loft offers unique satellite ‘rideshare’ opportunities
...mark its first launch tomorrow (29 June). San Francisco-based Loft Orbital describes its YAM-2 and YAM-3 satellites - short for Yet ...and the United Arab Emirates Space Agency, plus Loft Orbital’s own instruments with which it will serve multiple ...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
... have acquiesced to it”. Therefore, the same principle of prior knowledge could apply to tacit consent in the context of these in-orbit operations. ESA is planning the world’s first ever active debris removal mission, eDeorbit. Its goal is to capture...
April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
...worldwide Internet access are completed. As David Galadí-Enríquez explains, the intensive use of low Earth orbit by these new satellite networks is already proving detrimental - whether from an aesthetic, cultural or scientific point of view - to our...
10 March 2017
New interplanetary radar technique spots "lost" lunar spacecraft
... paramount importance for any future mission. However searching for derelict spacecraft and space debris in a lunar orbit, at least with optical telescopes, is challenging due to its bright glare. Now, a new technological application is set to change...
18 October 2017
Europe’s first all-electric telecom satellite breaks record
... of the satellite showed that the electric thrusters smoothly and efficiently propelled the satellite to the targeted orbit, while consuming almost six times less propellant than a similar satellite using chemical propulsion. “Electric propulsion...
15 April 2018
TESS, NASA's planet-finding mission launches today!
... view of the cosmos, while helping to keep radiation impact to a minimum. To boldly go where no observatory has gone before (in orbit), TESS will be hitching a lift on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and so far, the run up to the launch has been...
