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...
October 2018
Could salty brines be the key to microbial life on Mars?
... Mars provided by the ground detective work of the Phoenix Lander and Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity). What the ...activities likely above the 50 percent limit needed for life. Phoenix and Curiosity have taught us that perchlorate brines are likely...
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...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
... in the year, another Soyuz rocket suffered a technical partial failure when one of its payloads, the D-STAR Phoenix 1 cube, remained attached to its Fregat M upper stage. It is entirely feasible that a single launch may fly with...
