February 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
...only a few tens of thousands visiting low Earth orbit (LEO) per year would be profound. The Overview Effect would no... costs tens of millions of dollars, and launches beyond LEO are limited to occasional multibillion-dollar Artemis missions, serious ...
03 December 2021
NASA selects three companies to develop commercial space stations
... CEO at Nanoracks. “This opportunity opens far-reaching possibilities for critical research and commercial industrial activity in LEO. We are honoured to be selected as one of three awardees to work with NASA, and we cannot wait to bring our existing...
16 October 2019
Astroscale takes next step toward launch of world’s first commercial active debris removal mission
...Servicer. The impending increase in the number of satellites in LEO means that the threat of a potential collision or break-up... defunct satellites from orbit and maintaining the viability of LEO. “There has been growing global recognition of the need...
June 2015
Promoting growth at geostationary orbit with a one-stop-shop
... we started the GMP development was to develop our beyond-LEO capability. If you look at our last 30 years, ...exploit developments in all sectors. For example, we’ve done well in LEO by exploiting advances in mobile electronics, in other words we use...
March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
... in higher orbits likely to become similarly exposed soon. China’s 2007 destruction of one of its own weather satellites in LEO demonstrated its ability to hit satellites at that range. Its 2013 test of an ASAT weapon reportedly propelled a missile...
March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
...magnetic field is very strong - 25,000 nanotesla in low Earth orbit (LEO), near the equator - and we’ve already seen we cannot use that...around the Sun is four times higher than a satellite in LEO. Put it all together and you induce along the beanstalk...
