29 April 2020
NASA's new solar sail system to be tested on-board NanoAvionics' satellite
... an in-orbit demonstration of NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3). This a result of a contract between NASA Ames Research Center and AST for a 12U bus to carry NASA's payload into low Earth orbit (LEO) including...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... complex at Bengaluru’s high-security Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Telemetry, Tracking and Command ... MAVEN missions. This will be mainly in the area of atmospheric research relating to Mars. The launch of PSLV-C25 from Satish Dhawan...
April 2021
Satellites in the cloud: data from orbit
... more a strategic imperative, with business agility and IT flexibility being key drivers. NSR (Northern Sky Research), a global market research and consulting firm focused on the satellite and space sectors, forecasts upwards of 52 Exabytes of cloud...
10 March 2017
New interplanetary radar technique spots "lost" lunar spacecraft
... observe small asteroids several million miles from Earth, researchers were not certain that the radar could detect an... working together to rediscover Chandrayaan-1 and hunt down LRO, researchers have shown that it is possible to track and detect ...
11 April 2017
ESA to supply cameras for Russian lunar mission
... have been reached, that the European Space Agency will take part in lunar research," said director general of the NPO Lavochkin research and industrial association, Sergey Lemeshevsky. "It is quite possible that ESA will take part...
24 May 2017
Tests done on game changing nanotube material for thruster parts
...that much,” explains Michael Meador, Program Element Manager for Lightweight Materials and Manufacturing at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. “I’m not trying to be cliché, but that is a game changer!” The tensile properties of the COPV...
