21 December 2020
Innovative design could see CubeSats "steam-powered"
... only two moving parts and delivers enough total impulse (1,800 Ns with 1 kilogram of water) to maintain a CubeSat in a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) altitude of 375 kilometres for more than five years. This represents a huge potential savings in satellite...
29 April 2020
NASA's new solar sail system to be tested on-board NanoAvionics' satellite
... for a 12U bus to carry NASA's payload into low Earth orbit (LEO) including an approximately 800 square foot (74 square...demonstration using NanoAvionics' 12U bus will be the first ever in-orbit trial of NASA's composite booms as well as sail packing ...
08 October 2020
Asgardia joins International Astronautical Federation
...CET), Lena De Winne will be moderating a high-profile session on the ‘ISS commercialisation and future industry innovation in low Earth orbit’, which will take the form of a conversation between industry leaders on how the International Space Station...
September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
...Myriota’s core-business is building small, self-contained modules that communicate directly with a constellation of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Collected data is transferred to ground stations where all the transmissions received from thousands...
January 2022
De Ayrshire ad Astra
... launch vehicles was a horizontal air-launch system. The then Orbital Sciences’ Pegasus is a three stage, solid propellant launcher capable of placing up to 443 kg into low Earth orbit (LEO). Pegasus first flew in 1990, long before SpaceX inspired...
29 November 2021
Skyroot successfully test fires India's first privately developed cryogenic rocket engine
...-1 can carry a payload of up to 225 kilogrammes to a 500 kilometre sun synchronous polar orbit (SSPO), or 315 kilogrammes to 45 degree inclination 500 kilometre low Earth orbit (LEO). The largest rocket, Vikram-3 can transport 580 kilograms to SSPO...
