October 2015
Space debris, Kessler Syndrome, and the unreasonable expectation of certainty
... the publication of the work by Liou and Johnson there has been considerable interest shown in remediation of the space environment. In particular, significant effort has been invested across the globe in the development of methods to remove objects...
October 2015
Down to Earth: how to deorbit satellites and save money
...in the case of major satellite failure or the impossibility of controlling the satellite from the ground. The European Space Agency’s Envisat, launched on April 2002 and declared inoperative in 2012 due to an unidentified failure, will take up to 150...
June 2022
Finnish start-up ReOrbit aims to revolutionise space industry
...a software-defined architecture. The exponentially accelerating pace of technological change is a concept not fully understood. In his book, Space is Open for Business, Robert Jacobson quotes David Rose, the Founder of New York Angels, who summarised...
March 2015
Space weather: the public & policy
... the power grid, civil aviation and many satellite applications. The threat posed to these technologies by severe space weather has been well documented in a range of studies, most prominently in a study by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering (Cannon...
February 2016
Data Systems to Support Early Warning of Spaceborne Emergency Situations
... of Russia, Ministry of Defence of Russia, Roscosmos and others, have functional automated control systems that monitor dangerous space objects - and their goal is to discover, analyse and predict the consequences of DCS-related emergencies. The main...
14 June 2021
G7 nations commit to the safe and sustainable use of space
...Only through such leadership, with all nations working together, will we preserve the space environment for future generations.” Mert Evirgen, of Northern Space Security, also advocates the need for legally binding guidelines in his article Collision...
