August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... to place a 12U cubesat (a U is a measure of volume of about 1 litre) in an orbit at Mars that provides close-up encounters of Phobos and Deimos. The origin of the martian moons is unknown and they are therefore ripe for scientific discovery. Prof...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... Planet and Urthecast raised sufficient funding to acquire the space assets of established competitors Blackbridge and DEIMOS, re-enforcing their business model with a ‘traditional’ satellite constellation and a client portfolio. These first buybacks...
January 2019
Smallsat revolution and AI kick-start nascent EO big data market
... years. With over 200 Earth observation satellites, Planet now operates the largest satellite constellation in history. Deimos, a subsidiary of UrtheCast, has expanded into analytics with its recent acquisition of Geosys. The company has closed...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
... and worked as a Research Fellow at JAXA on several tele-operation experiments of ETS-VII satellite robot arm. He co-founded DEIMOS Space SL in 2001, participating in the development of various advanced flight systems, such as IXV, and becoming Head...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... Space Elevator related research, including collaboration with the Lake Matthew Team on the Mars Lift and Deimos Dock. Bibliography 1 ”Tsiolkovsky.org/Biography,” [Online]. Available: http://tsiolkovsky.org/en/biography/. [Accessed 15 July 2018...
February 2022
An interplanetary transportation system
... at a north or south latitude thereby enabling the ribbon to trail above or below the latitude of both Phobos and Deimos. Suppose there are just four Space Trains continuously cycling between the Earth and Mars and...
