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...
28 November 2015
NASA Set to Improve Orion's Heat Shield
...NASA's next generation spacecraft, will take astronauts Beyond Low-Earth Orbit (BLEO) and into deep space. Orion can carry...the craft from extreme temperatures experienced on reentry into Earth's atmosphere. During Orion's Exploration Flight Test (EFT...
09 December 2015
France and Germany Confirm Plans to Launch Methane Monitoring Satellite
... million euros ($266 million), which includes construction and launch of the satellite, three years operations in low Earth orbit, and the ground infrastructure. The launch is expected to happen in 2020 on either a Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket...
07 January 2016
France and Germany May Withdraw from ISS in 2020
...’s Orion crew exploration vehicle – whose mission is not centered on the international space station but destinations beyond low Earth orbit. ESA has already reduced its ISS operating costs – not including the common operating charges – by more...
