December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
...Centre, Sriharikota on 5 November 2013, carrying the Mars Orbiter Mission This apart, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at ... becomes operational, will have the capacity to place in orbit four-tonne class communication satellites. This flight, which ...
June 2015
Promoting growth at geostationary orbit with a one-stop-shop
... customer wanting to put a spacecraft into the 36,000kmhigh orbit, you’re probably looking at an entrylevel cost somewhere between ... were more than 400 active satellites in geostationary orbit. The majority are communications satellites but there are...
April 2020
Spaceport Cornwall – from protests to sustainability
...independent study from the University of Exeter on the carbon impact of the project and the operator Virgin Orbit. The report established that, at the height of activities, Spaceport Cornwall’s operations would contribute just 0.04-0.1 percent of all...
06 November 2019
UK Space Agency confirms £7.35 million funding to support small satellite launch from Cornwall
... climate change. The UK Space Agency originally announced its intention to award funding to Spaceport Cornwall and Virgin Orbit in June, subject to approval, as part of a wider £20 million funding package from Cornwall Council and the Cornwall and...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... to take the next logical step after in-flight refuelling between two aircraft - the robotic refuelling of orbiting satellites to extend on-orbit lifetimes. A service spacecraft for station keeping and manoeuvring is the first phase in a supply chain...
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... already has a suitable docking structure attached to it that would facilitate capture and transfer to a safer orbit. Even when a stable orbit has been achieved, a satellite is still likely to need attitude control and thermal management to maintain...
