February 2021
In-orbit servicing and insurance – a marriage of convenience?
...appear on a daily basis. Therefore, the risks related to conventional in-orbit satellite operation and the risks related to IOS should be recognised separately. This is important also in the context of the insurance coverage, which tackles the target...
September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
...removal actions will reduce the beneficial effect. It is also clear that preparing satellites for in-orbit servicing (IOS) before launch will reduce servicing costs, while standardisation and modularisation of satellite design will help to facilitate...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... in the industry, companies such as SpaceLogistics, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, are pioneering the field of in-orbit servicing (IOS), which challenges the 60-year paradigm that satellites, once launched, are out of reach. In February 2020, the...
February 2018
CubeSats changing the landscape for ‘app’ developers
.... A similar approach has been taken by Apple with iOS, albeit on its proprietary hardware and both approaches have... what has been done in the smartphone arena with Android and iOS. ESA recently developed a framework dedicated to CubeSats, the NanoSat ...
29 September 2022
UK gives space junk clearance missions priority funding
...mission in late 2024. Debris removal is expected to be the fastest growing segment of the emerging in-orbit services (IOS) market due to the increased need for operators to protect spacecraft in increasingly congested orbits. UKSA says it is enabling...
June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
... spacecraft communicate with Earth, using then-current software and hardware technology. In 2015, our Android and iOS phones have themselves become pocket computers, you can use a cluster of the latest PlayStation devices as a supercomputer...
