18 October 2017
Europe’s first all-electric telecom satellite breaks record
... to elongate mission life.” Improved versions of the thruster arms and power unit will now be used in Eurostar Neo – Airbus’s next-generation satellite platform. Speaking of the success of the all-electric telecom satellite, Nicolas Chamussy...
29 June 2018
All things asteroid: Who, What, Where and When
... that will have the ability to scan the entire sky in just 48 hours for near-Earth objects (NEO). ESA has also entered its next engineering phase for an ambitious planetary defence experiment known as Hera...
05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
... and will be particularly negative for scientific large area images used to search for Near Earth Objects (NEOs),” say the team. But its not just telescopes that search in visible light that will be affected...
26 August 2020
LEO constellations will "fundamentally change" astronomy, warns new report
... highly impacted are science programmes that require twilight observations, such as searches for near-Earth objects (NEOs), distant Solar System objects, rare transients, exoplanet transits in wide-field surveys and deep multi-object...
07 August 2019
Successful launch of the second SpaceDataHighway satellite
... significantly increase the system’s communication capacity and considerably expand its coverage. From 2021, the Pleiades Neo Earth observation satellites will begin to use the SpaceDataHighway. By the end of 2019, the system will also...
