November 2018
Pole star rising
... in both downstream and upstream sectors. Most Polish projects carried out in collaboration with ESA are now industrial and commercial, whereas most of the earlier activities were performed by research and development institutions. In December 2017...
March 2015
Satellite technology in newsgathering and disaster coverage
...satellite” superimposed over a major news story added gravitas and a sense of urgency and importance to major events. To an industry used to dropping a roll of film in a mailbox and waiting a week or more for it to arrive at the studio, satellite was...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... on these programmes and alongside other commercial partnerships, NASA is well within vision to eventually entrust the commercial industry with all LEO operations. This shift to purchasing services from the private sector is allowing NASA to focus...
21 December 2020
Innovative design could see CubeSats "steam-powered"
... functional. Soon however, that could change as engineers at Howe Industries have come up with a breakthrough engine design that utilises a ... out of the nozzle. Even better, say Howe Industries, the self-sufficient, plug-n-play ThermaSat requires no ...
10 January 2019
Successful launch of formation-flying microsatellite constellation
... Serafini, CEO of HawkEye 360, based in Herndon, Virginia. SFL was selected for the mission by Deep Space Industries, the HawkEye 360 Pathfinder prime contractor, due to the importance of formation flying by multiple satellites for successful...
January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
... to monitor and tackle the problems of sustainability of our territory and also in space. How big is Portugal’s space industry as a whole? In a nutshell, we have more or less 70 companies, which at our scale is quite something. We have around 15,000...
