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...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... Soyuz, mostly used for injection into Low Earth Orbits (LEO) and Russian space stations missions, soon proved to be ...the lower three stages to provide access to a full range of orbits (LEO, SSO, MEO and GTO). The main propulsion system of the Fregat ...
August 2016
Flying in formation - why China and the rest of the world should collaborate
..., which almost means relinquishing human spaceflight activities in LEO. Cooperation with CSS, however, would open a new door for... Europe to continue its presence in LEO. For Russia, the ability to implement its independent space...
