September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... 3D printed rocket fuel. The company is developing a three-stage rocket capable of launching up to 380 kg into low Earth orbit. Initially, it may not be possible to do it alone, but over several iterations of the Talisman Sabre exercise, Australia...
May 2018
Challenging the boundaries of materials science
...regulating chemicals produced or imported in the EU. Part of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) solar array returned from low Earth orbit by astronauts after the HST’s first service mission, showing the atomic oxygen protection silicone coating to have...
September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
... global broadband, while Google and Samsung are also mulling similar initiatives. With all these satellites, low-Earth orbit - at an altitude of 2,000km (1,200 miles) or less above the planet - is becoming an increasingly crowded space. When I spoke...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
... of Things (IoT) applications. Some of these are designed to provide low latency (low signal delay) mobile broadband communications and thus need to be operated from low Earth orbit (LEO), with very large numbers of satellites required to provide...
October 2023
Using drones to test phased array antennas
... that is essential for COTM applications. When a COTM antenna is communicating with a satellite in low Earth orbit (LEO) and medium Earth orbit (MEO), the complexity of tracking increases further, making the use of electronically steerable antennas...
October 2024
Spaceport America’s road to the future
...Federal Aviation Authority) certified. UAVs are going to prove to be very useful in terms of relieving the strain on crowded low Earth orbits [LEO] or if satellites are damaged or destroyed in war. High altitude platforms Systems [HAPS] would be able...
