April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
.... Government-funded research has suggested more than 30 small satellite operators plan to launch low Earth orbit (LEO) constellations before 2030, amounting to more than 7000 potential satellites However, the UK’s location with respect to its...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
...celestial bodies such as the Moon and Mars, but also in LEO, requires structures that supply functionalities to survive and fulfil the ...benefits and the preparation of long-duration flights beyond LEO, space habitation in the coming decade will have ...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
... these missions affordable and sustainable. Unlike life in low Earth orbit (LEO) where resources can be brought form the ground, for humans to thrive beyond LEO resources have to be found, extracted, processed, managed and used directly...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
... Space Agency’s planned e.Deorbit programme was pursuing this approach. However, debris objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) occupy a variety of orbits, forcing removal systems to be single use: too much propellant is needed to transition between orbits...
January 2020
Open source space sustainability
... regulatory filings of SpaceX, OneWeb, and Amazon’s Project Kuiper alone foreshadow a 10 to 25-fold increase in the population of LEO satellites in the coming decade. The Aeolus-Starlink44 conjunction illustrates two realities about the present state...
February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
... future exploration beyond the ISS and low Earth orbit (LEO) operations, and is actively developing collaborative programmes related to... domains that will occur in exploration scenarios beyond LEO. A number of initiatives have been undertaken towards...
