April 2025
Catapult to orbit - will David finally defeat Goliath?
... launch system altogether. Longshot aims to use a ‘space cannon’, which - it is claimed - would be able to fire a shell into low Earth orbit with a single blast. With this system, a bullet-shaped capsule would be ejected from the gun barrel...
April 2026
Spaceflight and the radiation problem
... cancer, central nervous system damage, bone loss and some cardiovascular diseases. Shielding Just one day in low Earth orbit (LEO) exposes a person to the same amount of radiation experienced on the surface of the planet...
May 2026
Satellite brightness and the mitigation challenge
...than a decade, thousands of satellites have been deployed into low Earth orbit, transforming what was once an intermittently disturbed sky into a...but because thousands of new satellites are flooding low Earth orbit (LEO), turning the night sky into a ...
12 November 2018
"Its Business Time" for Rocket Lab's first commercial flight
... commercial launch successfully deploy six small satellites into a low-Earth orbit over the weekend; a move that opens up the... inactive, small satellites using atmospheric drag. The Electron orbital launch vehicle had its inaugural test flight in May ...
28 March 2019
India carries out first-ever anti-satellite weapon test
... missile test and successfully obliterated a low earth orbit satellite in space. Codenamed “Mission Shakti...to the decreased distance it produced minimal debris that decayed out of orbit within a year. The target destroyed in India’s Mission Shakti was...
20 June 2023
Orbex teams with Arianespace
... collaboration would be particularly beneficial for customers planning small satellite constellations, providing a flexible solution for low Earth orbit (LEO) payloads. Light and heavy-lift launch vehicles could jointly support customers in deploying...
