May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... China’s space ambitions for the 2020s (continued CSS habitation, at least three uncrewed lunar missions, a global LEO broadband constellation, etc), it is clear that there will be ample opportunities for other countries to collaborate. But if China...
September 2023
Satellite manufacturing - building to size, speed and security
... of Turin students developthe papal Spei Satelles (Satellites of Hope) to deliverPope Francis’s Statio Orbis pandemic prayer into LEO. About the authors Marc Bell is the Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Terran Orbital, a global satellite manufacturer...
29 September 2022
UK gives space junk clearance missions priority funding
... of a mission to remove two derelict satellites from LEO. The Clearing the LEO Environment with Active Removal (CLEAR) mission, which will... two derelict UK objects from a congested region of LEO above 700 km altitude. Both objects have been inactive...
July 2014
Beware the situation: how JSpOC tracks space debris
... of the number of such objects in low-Earth orbit (LEO) range between 300,000 and 560,000. We fully expect...are under 5km miss distance at GEO or less than 1km miss distance in LEO, and we do this within 72 hours of the time of closest approach...
October 2015
Down to Earth: how to deorbit satellites and save money
... the Earth’s atmosphere. Each year this €2.3 billion-worth LEO satellite keeps orbiting uncontrolled, it increases the risk of collision... operators active on French territory to decommission all LEO satellites orbiting within 2000km at the end of ...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
...; interplanetary spaceflight, however, poses unique issues in respect of identifying and codifying criminality. Unlike the mass access to LEO eagerly anticipated by space tourism companies, the crew of any such flight will be relatively small for the...
