March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
...systems. Bubble trouble Conversion launch rockets such as Dnepr could help fill the need for more launchers... for launch rockets for SSC launches. Conversion launch rockets such as Dnepr that do a cluster launch of many SSCs at once could ameliorate...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... satellites couldn’t be deployed and burned up inside the KickSat on re-entry about a month later. In June 2014 a Russian Dnepr rocket launched 37 satellites from different countries for scientific and commercial purposes in one go and prior to this...
January 2017
Israeli students inspired by nano-satellite projects
... ionosphere On the evening of 19 June 2014, Duchifat-1 was successfully launched from Russia’s Yasny launch base aboard a Dnepr converted ICBM, in a launch that broke records for most satellites launched at once (36 other satellites were launched...
July 2014
Beware the situation: how JSpOC tracks space debris
... tracking and analysis at varying degrees for mission success. Just 30 hours after the Minotaur launch, a Russian Dnepr booster established a new record by carrying 32 small payloads into orbit. These were being flown for students...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
... Shayenko. Tvoi Sektor is currently at work on the Mayak satellite and looking for donations for a launch on the Dnepr rocket. The plan is for Mayak to unfurl a metallic reflector in orbit in autumn 2016 and, for a few months...
August 2016
Smallsat launch strategy
... appropriately sized for small satellites that are currently operating include Pegasus, Minotaur-C, Vega, PSLV and Dnepr. Controlling the orbit and schedule partially mitigates the risks associated with schedule delays, but there...
