10 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe blasts off to face the Sun
...to the most recent observations of the Sun surface.” Solar Orbiter will use a combination of 10 in situ and remote-...in which our planet resides.” We are all Solar Orbiters Solar Orbiter will be one of two complementary spacecraft studying the Sun...
18 January 2021
Virgin Orbit rocket reaches orbit for first time
...before yesterday. “A new gateway to space has just sprung open! That LauncherOne was able to successfully reach orbit today is a testament to this team’s talent, precision, drive, and ingenuity. Even in the face of a global pandemic, we’ve maintained...
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...
September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
...to the adoption of removal actions will reduce the beneficial effect. It is also clear that preparing satellites for in-orbit servicing (IOS) before launch will reduce servicing costs, while standardisation and modularisation of satellite design will...
June 2022
In-orbit servicing and the future of the space industry
...for launch over the next 10 years, this is a scenario that must be addressed now. ION Satellite Carrier, D-Orbit’s Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV). Space traffic To facilitate the safe operations of about 1.5 billion vehicles circulating here on Earth...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
.... An evolved version of such a system could also employ basic in-space operational capabilities such as rendezvous and docking, on-orbit assembly and propellant transfer to enable a subsonic air-launched RLV to form the first leg of a fully reusable...
