April 2025
Spacecraft anomalies and insurance losses
... in this article, because most major insured spacecraft are in GEO. Low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation operators sometimes insure the launches of their spacecraft, but not for in-orbit risks and such is the number of their spacecraft that they...
March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
... 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... healthy. To support one astronaut for one year in Earth orbit requires around 8000 kg of supplies, excluding fuel. With...
April 2017
Mega-challenges for mega-constellations
... Several information technology and electronics companies have announced plans to provide such service via large constellations in low Earth orbit (LEO) by 2018-2020. The proposed concepts foresee spanning a global, leak-proof network of inter-linked...
February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
... in spaceflight from earlier decades. EAC is now also focused on future exploration beyond the ISS and low Earth orbit (LEO) operations, and is actively developing collaborative programmes related to deep space exploration missions. EAC is Neutral...
August 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
... in Dream Chaser, a reusable, multi-mission space utility vehicle capable of transporting payloads and people to and from low-Earth orbit and the ISS. Currently SNC is building a cargo version of the Dream Chaser. It will be the only commercial...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
...NCRP) issued a report: ‘Information Needed to Make Radiation Protection Recommendations for Space Missions Beyond Low-Earth Orbit’. Recommendations in this report included improvement of the characterisation of the space radiation environment for GCR...
