April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... we risk irreversible damage that could undermine the benefits of space for future generations. About the authors Marco Rocchetto is the CEO and co-founder of Telescope Live and Spaceflux, with a PhD in Astrophysics from UCL. He contributed...
April 2019
On-board propulsion set to drive the smallsat revolution
... have sufficient capability to perform interplanetary exploration, such as with NASA’s recent launch of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) flyby mission to Mars. And with the burgeoning interest in asteroid mining, a disruption in the mining sector may...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... and relay engineering telemetry from InSight as it lands, when it will be out of direct line of sight from Earth. MarCO’s mission objective is not science – its relay function serves an engineering purpose – but it is easy to imagine how it could...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
..., like Luigi Broglio Space Center’s (BSC) San Marco platform off Kenya and the Sea Launch platform, Ocean... colonial side of these histories to be explored. Although the San Marco rocket platform was trumpeted as bringing Kenya into the space age, the...
12 June 2017
US spy satellite buzzes ISS
... circled the ISS," reported satellite bserver Marco Langbroek of Leiden, The Netherlands. Amateur... the possibility of a collision avoidance manoeuvre. Diagram prepared by Marco Langbroek showing encounter. "USA 276 remained just outside the 4...
14 April 2026
Spaceflux lands Canadian military space surveillance deal
... Centre. “This landmark contract is a direct result of the AI-driven orbital intelligence capability we have built in the UK,” said Marco Rocchetto, CEO of Spaceflux. “Our operational work with UK Space Command, UKSA and DSTL has demonstrated that...
