10 January 2019
Successful launch of formation-flying microsatellite constellation
... frequency interference, and search for people in distress. “This is the first time a commercial company has utilised formation-flying satellites for RF detection,” said John Serafini, CEO of HawkEye 360, based in Herndon, Virginia. SFL was selected...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
..., maintaining centimetre-level accuracy across tens of metres. Proba-3 marks the next step in formation flying. Its two satellites will maintain formation to millimetre and arc-second precision at distances of up to 250 m for several hours. The...
