03 May 2019
Debris from India's ASAT test worse than predicted
...’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO). This distance is below that used by many of the hundreds of working satellites in space in a low Earth orbit (LEO), a region that corresponds to a range of altitudes anywhere from 400 and 1200...
10 January 2019
Successful launch of formation-flying microsatellite constellation
... Canadian CanX-4/CanX-5 mission. “We have developed compact, low-cost formation flying technology that no other small satellite developer can credibly offer,” said SFL Director Dr. Robert E. Zee. Precise formation flying is critical to the HawkEye...
18 June 2019
Israeli space tech firm hiSky expands to the UK
... is targeted to support the development of hiSky’s satellite receiving terminals, operations and management software for the...our privilege to establish the first real low-cost global Virtual Satellite Network and to do it in the UK. hiSky’s cutting ...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... countries that have participated in the construction of the satellite. This means that there is a growing unmet global... space observatories (Kepler-2, GAIA, Cheops and TESS). The Twinkle satellite will be built in the UK and launched into a low-Earth...
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
...extraordinary situation that space transportation has reached can be explained by looking at the history of spaceflight. The first satellites in the 1950s were launched using converted ballistic missiles, as these were the first objects able to reach...
April 2024
Unlocking the NewSpace economy through space-based solar power
... refuelling infrastructure, both chemical and electrical. Planning in-orbit servicing and maintenance missions is difficult as the original satellites were never designed to be maintained. SBSP will be designed for this and help to pave the way for...
