June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
... matter how outside-thebox, will be rejected a priori. The OPS-SAT objective is to offer a low-cost laboratory flying in a low-... for the experimenters to use (See box). To reduce cost, OPS-SAT will fly as a hightech nanosat, measuring just 10 X 10 X ...
August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
... space. In the same year the first Polish satellite, PW-SAT (with a mass of less than 1 kg), was launched ... in Art. 3 of the Act. The first Polish student satellite, PW-SAT, under construction prior to launch in February 2012. It also includes the ...
17 December 2018
Innovative mission to view the surface of exoplanets using small sats
... plans for a solar gravity lens (SGL) – a cluster of small sats which act like a lens to provide up to a 100-billion optical...it will appear as a ring-like image. The swarm of small sats will be stationed at the focal point ready and waiting to collect...
January 2018
Shielding the human genome
... bodies as the weakest link in their mission. The irony would not be lost upon them, especially as they sat in the capsule above the thousands of components that would comprise the most powerful rocket ever built...
April 2024
Agencia Espacial Española – Spain’s future assurance
... final day of the Small Satellites & Services International Forum (SSSIF), held in Malaga’s winter sunshine in mid-February, I sat down with Carlos García-Sacristán to find out why a country with such a long space history had...
February 2018
CubeSats changing the landscape for ‘app’ developers
....In the future, this tool will be used by the OPS-SAT experimenters to operate their app in space from a simple web ...that could be used in many different spacecraft. ESA’s OPS-SAT will test and validate new techniques in mission control and on-board...
