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...
29 September 2021
Orbit Fab to launch first geostationary fuel tanker
...-001 Tenzing – is a 35 kilogram small satellite tanker designed to store green propellant (high-test peroxide) in a sun-synchronous orbit to refuel other spacecraft. Tenzing was launched on 30th June, 2021 via a SpaceX Falcon 9, and is also being...
24 August 2018
Astrocast and D-Orbit announce InOrbit NOW launch agreement
...and early 2020. “Astrocast is pleased to partner with D-Orbit in securing an established, proven launch vehicle for our fourth... mark the fourth deployment of Astrocast’s spacecraft in orbit. During the planned Astrocast mission, the ten nanosatellites...
30 October 2019
Solar Orbiter ready for launch transfer
... Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, in preparations for launch. Solar Orbiter will perform a close-up study of our Sun and the Sun-... of the Solar System. At the same time, Solar Orbiter will acquire in situ data and characterise and calibrate its remote...
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...
October 2019
Electric orbit raising and space weather
.... The trapped particles that constitute the Van Allen belts (protons and electrons) pose a serious risk to orbiting satellites because of their effects on sensitive electronic components However, in the last four years, commercial satellite missions...
