30 October 2019
Questions surround US top-secret spaceplane mission
...that extends from its payload bay doors once the craft is in orbit. But what exactly has it been doing up in space for...be fitted with robotic arms to capture other satellites that are in orbit,” Zhongping said. The US Air Force have yet to reveal any ...
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 ...
June 2015
Ultimate sunbather: NASA and ESA collaborate on Solar Orbiter
... to its very limits. It uses over 80 suppliers of major spacecraft parts from over 20 countries. The crucial Solar Orbiter structural test model is currently undergoing testing at a facility in Germany to ensure that all mechanical and thermal design...
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...
April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
...’ Liquid Apogee Engines (LAEs), a rocket used only at the beginning of a GEO satellite’s lifetime to place it in its final orbit. By utilising this near-universal feature, MEV-1 is able to dock with almost 80 percent of GEO satellites, even though...
