March 2016
Space debris conundrum for international law makers
... certain objects are debris according to size, volume or weight? Where do we draw the line? The recent surge in cubesat and miniaturisation technology is bound to further muddy the legal waters. A road travelled together To conclusively deal with...
April 2017
Mega-challenges for mega-constellations
... increase in space traffic in LEO mainly fuelled by small satellites and cubesats as well as nanosats, which grant cheaper access to space. Even ... satellites of less than 10 kilograms (typically cubesats) obviously benefit from the low mass-to-area ...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
... disadvantaging UK manufacturing. In a consultation document on CubeSats promulgated in June 2015, the UK Space Agency ... OSA regulatory regime was not well suited to deal with CubeSats. Section 4 of OSA provides the statutory authority for the...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... by undergraduate students. This occurred just one year after the first CubeSats were placed in orbit, at a time when the popularity of ...debris, Planet and Spire, the two largest commercial CubeSat operators, have self-imposed rules to ensure that ...
May 2019
Unlocking the full potential of Earth observation
...almost as quickly as their satellites can collect it. Radix demonstrates technology for an optical data relay system. The CubeSat downlinks data to the ground using laser communication. Such optical communication downlinks increase the timeliness and...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
...orbiting Earth are small, like the BIRDS-3 project CubeSats seen here being released from the International Space Station. ...The project uses a constellation of three 1U CubeSats developed by Japan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Space is not...
