February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... the dangers of asteroid and comet strikes and each year the level of threat increases. Monitoring via GPS satellites have shown that such strikes are four times more common than previously thought. We know...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
Compared to routine operations in low Earth orbit, the allure of interplanetary exploration is almost irresistible. Ultimately, space stations like the ISS are an essential building block and training ground for future interplanetary exploration. ...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... capabilities over time. Weather is one area increasingly explored by private industry with new space efforts in imagery, GPS Radio Occultation and hyperspectral sensing. ASRA provides authority and funding for DoD to start a pilot programme...
September 2016
Co-operating in space transcends national identity
... this first military-led step before arriving at the civil Earth observation satellites, along with the GPS satellites and the telecom satellites, all of which have revolutionised daily life on Earth. With programmes like...
September 2016
Small launcher market survey
...And they provide a broad spectrum of capabilities, such as multispectral and hyperspectral imagery, weather data collection, GPS radio occultation and video. With the boom in smallsats comes an increasing demand for launch opportunities. The ...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... are operating in GEO. Most of the rest are either in LEO or in the medium Earth orbits (MEOs) used by GPS and other global navigation satellite constellations. Spatial density of orbital debris vs. altitude in Low Earth orbits. Orbital...
