March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
... ntenna arrays A project to create such an SC is already in the works. It is being developed by NovaWurks, by order of DARPA. It uses so-called “satlets” (20x20x10 cm) as modules. It is expected that satellites consisting of twenty to thirty such...
June 2015
The real Interstellar: space travel theories from Tsiolkovsky to wormholes
... British Interplanetary Society and the Tau Zero Foundation) and the 100 Year Starship project (via DARPA and NASA). In the century that has passed since Tsiolkovsky’s time, thousands of works tackling the problems...
June 2017
Space economics - industry trends and space investing
... formations. In addition, early stage contract awards by organisations such as NASA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the US and others have provided project based capital that has allowed many concepts to be developed from...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
.... Jekan has a bachelor’s in aerospace engineering from the University of Toronto. He worked on Canadarm, Canadarm 2 and the DARPA Orbital Express missions at MDA Space Missions. Jekan obtained his Ph.D. in space robotics at the University of Toronto...
January 2019
Smallsat revolution and AI kick-start nascent EO big data market
...it recently won a US$2.9 million contract with a US$4.2 million option from the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for its Geospatial Cloud Analytics programme, an initiative launched in 2017 to help analysts gain access to and analyse...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
... at the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research at the University of New South Wales. In a previous term at DARPA, he created the SUMO programme, which demonstrated autonomous robotic grappling of a spacecraft in the laboratory. He also...
