21 November 2018
First captive carry of Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne
... ground in 2017 - a figure that sounds reasonable enough, but falls somewhat short of true potential say Virgin Orbit. The company therefore has designs on scaling up launch rates to an unprecedented frequency and its LauncherOne system ‘is a great...
15 April 2020
Successful test clears the way for Virgin Orbit's first-ever launch
... similar to that which will be carried on operational flights - super cold liquid oxygen. Founded by Richard Branson, Virgin Orbit is a branch of the billionaire’s Virgin Group of companies, which also includes the Virgin Galactic space tourism firm...
15 May 2020
An unexpected meeting could see Solar Orbiter study Comet ATLAS
... paper published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society. All eyes will now be on Solar Orbiter and if the spacecraft’s instruments do detect material from Comet ATLAS, “it will be the first predicted serendipitous comet...
17 July 2020
Solar Orbiter spots country-sized ‘campfires’ on the Sun
... size of a European country, said mission scientists in a press conference yesterday. The ‘campfires’ were detected with Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager, or EUI instrument, which takes high-resolution images of the lower layers of the Sun...
September 2017
Space nation set to mark its presence in orbit
... the constitution developed by lawyers. Asgardia-1 will primarily be a data storage satellite. It is scheduled for launch into orbit this autumn by an Orbital ATK Antares rocket carrying the ninth Cygnus cargo freighter, which will be on its eighth...
September 2019
Extending the life of geostationary orbit satellites
... satellites that have recently been retired, or that are no longer needed by their original operators, to initiate new orbital businesses at much lower costs. Additionally, in the case of a satellite anomaly, MEV can assist in anomaly attribution for...
