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 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...
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...
07 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission set to launch on 10 February
...is counting down the hours to the launch of their Solar Orbiter mission. Scheduled for launch Monday 10 February 04:03 GMT (05:03 CET... will face blistering temperatures of up to 500°C. Solar Orbiter’s mission objective is to collect data on the Sun’s...
