February 2017
UN strategy lifts capacity for non-spacefaring countries
.... Dream Chaser is a safe, affordable, flexible and reliable system capable of crewed and un-crewed transportation services to LEO destinations. SNC is currently working with airport and spaceport authorities in pursuit of the necessary licenses for...
March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
... up - space. But space exploration is limited by very high cost and extreme risk. Experience in low Earth orbit (LEO) and on a handful of manned flights to the Moon have taught us that future long-duration missions will face...
November 2017
Advancing maritime intelligence with real-time satellite AIS
... of shipping activity is precisely their business. Operating with its own first-generation constellation of low-Earth orbiting (LEO) satellites, exactEarth can detect the signals from more than 250,000 active vessels across the...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... market will be realised, first in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) and then medium and low Earth orbit (LEO), through logistics. Those space-based ‘cars’, forever on the road, that have been creating new businesses...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
... impacts of radiation. Space radiation is the number one risk to astronaut health on missions beyond low Earth orbit (LEO) and, with a host of long term and deep space missions being actively planned and developed, it is becoming...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
...the trend is set to increase with companies proposing satellite constellations of up to 42,000 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). This rapid increase in the infrastructure surrounding our planet comes at a time of increased reliance on the services...
