March 2015
On-orbit satellite servicing, insurance and lessons of Palapa B2 and Westar 6
... soon become a reality in the space industry. The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency has a program called Phoenix, which aims to repair satellites and create new on-orbit assets from pieces of retired satellites. Likewise, NASA...
August 2017
On-orbit assembly will deliver major benefits in coming decade
... self-organising to fulfill the objectives of a larger mission, is enabled by advances in formation flight. DARPA is pursuing the Phoenix Satlet concept whereby small autonomous modules incorporate key satellite capabilities and aggregate in various...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
.... The mission set the stage for the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) Spirit and Opportunity, Mars Phoenix, the Mars Science Laboratory and the upcoming Mars 2020 rovers. Mother-daughter architectures using CubeSats...
August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... is due to touch down on the red planet in November of this year and the latter’s design is based on NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander, a mission that successfully made it to the martian surface a decade ago. It is powered by two nearly circular...
12 January 2018
Evidence in DES map of small galaxies being eaten by the Milky Way
... Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab), a member of the DES team. Four of the streams found by DES – ATLAS, Molonglo, Phoenix and Tucana III – were already previously known to researchers. The others were discovered using the Dark...
02 June 2016
XCOR lays off significant part of workforce
... for a runway landing, has been behind schedule for some time. Speaking at the Space Access ’16 conference in Phoenix on April 8, Doug Jones, chief test engineer and the last of the company’s co-founders still at XCOR, suggested...
