September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
... Visible near-field image of Intelsat 901, taken by Space Logistics’ MEV-1 from a distance of about 15 m, just prior to docking early...early 2020 to provide so-called ‘life extension services’. MEV-2 was launched later in 2020 to service Intelsat 10-02...
20 January 2016
Our view of Van Allen belts set to be revolutionised by new data from NASA probes
...the structure of the belts. Above 1 megaelectron volt (Mev), the highest electron energies measured, researchers saw electrons in... not uncommon for lower-energy electrons — up to 0.8 MeV — to fill this space during almost all geomagnetic storms and...
July 2017
Hunting for neutrinos in the ice of Antarctica
... energies between three and 10 mega-electronvolts (MeV) and are usually more energetic than those from the Sun (at ...less than 1 MeV). Conversely, those produced in the atmosphere are more energetic (at ...
February 2021
In-orbit servicing and insurance – a marriage of convenience?
...-1) captures target satellite Intelsat 901 (IS-901) to initiate final docking of the two spacecraft. MEV-1 successfully returned IS-901 to service in its designated position in GEO on 2 April 2020. Left: One of the leading satellite ...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... encourages Deimos resource assignment and development of the Omaha Trail. An Omaha Field over Omaha Crater - 500 MeV cosmic ray protons deflected by the magnetostatic Omaha Field. Vertically-injected protons in black, Omaha Crater rim...
