November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
... parking orbit where space debris can be transported. The one we are all familiar with is geostationary orbit (GEO), a 1:1 resonance at an altitude of 35,786 km, but this is widely used for active satellite missions. Another resonance we might...
April 2026
Robotics is the future of space labour
... to mere tens of milliseconds. Historically, an RF signal would be transmitted from the ground to the faraway geostationary orbit (GEO) and back to LEO. Meanwhile, for the first time, we see the robustness of robot learning or ‘embodied artificial...
04 October 2017
First ever Stratollite launch from Spaceport Tucson
... will help World View lead the way in the emerging stratospheric economy by offering many of the benefits of geo-stationary satellites, low Earth orbit satellites, and high-altitude drones but at a fraction of the cost of those...
01 June 2021
Space junk collision highlights need for intervention
... are around 34,000 trackable objects - larger than 5-10 cm in low Earth orbit (LEO) and 30 cm to 1 m in geostationary orbit (GEO) - as well as several thousands to millions of non-trackable debris particles in orbit around the Earth. “These in-orbit...
