June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
...space age sooner rather than later, we need to use existing technology as far as is practicable An airliner capable of flying to LEO would transform spaceflight by providing vastly lower costs and improved safety. The essential design features of the...
September 2017
India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship
... stacks that can add specific industry and decision intelligence to an array of industries. The low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation-based satellite services - including Internet, IoT, AIS, ADS-B, GPS-RO - integrate into different B2B or B2C...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
... small satellite payloads being launched into low Earth orbit (LEO). At the forefront of this is the mega constellation ...as smallsat market growth predictions are almost exclusively focusing upon LEO, an area of space already under strain from over ...
April 2019
LISA Pathfinder – paving the way for future studies of the gravitational universe
...spacecraft had to be injected into an eccentric low-Earth orbit (LEO) of around ~207km/~1540km with an inclination of 5.96 degrees. ... Propulsions Module. In order to raise the orbit from this LEO to the final SEL#1 target orbit the spacecraft had to ...
