April 2024
The promise of solar energy for sustainable development and space exploration
... associated with disasters are lack of energy, communications and night-time illumination so, once again, solar power satellites could potentially provide affordable power to enable these crucial relief elements. SBSP thus represents a clean energy...
21 September 2018
Net to capture space junk passes debut debris collection
... its intended environment. The project's aim is quite simply; point the satellite at a piece of space junk, fire a net at it, capture ... Station to test its effectiveness, the 100 kilogram satellite did just that. It successfully deployed its onboard ...
January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
... up from Earth. Instead, most of them will be 90 percent manufactured on ‘outposts’; the software will be uploaded and you’ll do satellite deployment on demand from orbiting platforms, not from launch vehicles. You’ll use the launch vehicles to send...
31 March 2016
JAXA Director of ISC Says Hitomi Recovery May Be Possible
... and was in the middle of a three-month testing and instrument calibration period, when contact with the satellite was lost on March 26. According to Fujimoto, “During its initial operation it was working perfectly.” Hitomi’s problems, he said...
