19 June 2017
"The most efficient rocket engine in the world" to be launched by ARCA
... due to schedule and budget constraints, the design was not implemented. ARCA is also considering using the Demonstrator 3 to begin commercial suborbital flight services as the simple and low cost rocket can carry a payload of 30 kilograms...
17 October 2016
ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbitor positions itself ready for its planned orbit insertion on Wednesday
... unit enters the martian atmosphere in two days time. Schiaparelli is the missions Entry, Descent and landing demonstrator Module (EDM) and it has already separated from the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) yesterday at 16:42 CEST (14:42 GMT...
April 2021
Norway’s pioneering use of microsatellites
... greatly the maritime picture in remote areas, they also provided industrial growth in a new Norwegian segment and demonstrated to Norwegian authorities and politicians that small satellites were a sensible and cost-efficient means for Norway...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
... has made significant progress in the field of multi-satellite missions. ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has demonstrated centimetre-scale accuracy when docking with the International Space Station (ISS), while Sweden’s Prisma mission...
October 2016
Unlocking the potential of annular ion engines
... electrodes. Extremely-high beam collimation was documented; a thrust-loss correction factor of 0.997, the highest ever demonstration for an ion thruster [11]. In 2014 a full-scale second-generation (‘GEN2’) AIE discharge chamber (65 cm outside dia...
April 2019
LISA Pathfinder – paving the way for future studies of the gravitational universe
...-V of some 3.1 km/sec. LISA Pathfinder launch composite during ground testing. The SCM supported the two technology demonstrator experiments on-board: the European LISA technology package and the NASA- supplied Disturbance Reduction System (DRS...
