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...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
...800 nanosatellites have been launched into low Earth orbit (LEO), with a majority of launches after 2010 by new... standard. The current CubeSat standard, designed originally for LEO satellites, is not applicable for interplanetary missions, where ...
July 2019
Developing life support systems for human exploration missions beyond Earth
...deploy the world’s first outposts beyond low Earth orbit (LEO). Working with US companies and international partners, the agency... the basis for future crewed space exploration capabilities beyond LEO. In addition to this experience, the ISS continues ...
