March 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 ...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... to increase the robustness and operational throughput to the ISS, and ensure a successful transition of ISS-based commercial LEO utilization to a commercial platform at ISS EOL. Axiom has proposed to design and develop a commercial crewed ISS module...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
...considered the impact of the authorised (from a radio perspective) space systems on the orbital environment, on orbital operations in LEO, and other factors such as post-mission disposal. This has only been a consideration in geostationary orbit (GEO...
May 2024
The challenges of satellite communications on the move
... upgrade in satellite services. LowEarth orbiting (LEO) satellites are being launched, forming large constellations of spacecraft...single transmit channel so it can simultaneously receive from both LEO and expand MEO/GEO using a single flat antenna operating...
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...
28 September 2022
Firms pioneer embryo conception mission for ‘space mice'
...’s new ‘Space-Embryo-Incubator’ flying in low Earth orbit (LEO), several mice will become the first animals in history to be...and female reproduction cells and, once deployed in LEO, the embryos are automatically impregnated and start developing ...
