May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... an advanced version of the highly-proven four-stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) - the PSLV-XL. The...in orbit. All the 104 satellites were deployed in a 505 km polar Sun-synchronous orbit and, according to B. Jayakumar, mission director, one...
September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
..., if an operator were to launch a spacecraft with a nominal one square metre cross-sectional area body into an 800 km polar orbit, what would the likelihood be of the spacecraft becoming killed or maimed (permanent loss of capacity and/or mission...
November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
...and maintain these over our vast ocean areas and difficult mountainous or polar regions. ADS-B does not therefore solve the issue of a lack... give full coverage of Earth’s surface including ocean and polar regions, and also near space for both air and ...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
...) - will study the planet and its environment from dedicated polar orbits. Days on Mercury are quite long compared to Earth.... will be used to inject both spacecraft into their dedicated polar orbits. The Japanese MMO will be released first, after...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... intended to launch payloads of 150 kg into equatorial and polar orbits from 250-700 km altitude, but this programme has...to other parts of the world and allowing access to both polar and equatorial orbits The AEB has started the reorganisation of the ...
October 2020
Space 2069 - back to the Moon, to Mars and beyond
...from a depth of 200 kilometres during the formation of the south polar Aitken Basin by a giant impact billions of years ago. The... Just like to the explorers of the heroic age of polar exploration 150 years ago, celebrations were important for morale. ...
