April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
... and regulatory aspects of the private spaceflight business. He is currently proposing a space tourism hotel in geostationary orbit, known as Gateway Earth, designed to furnish revenues to support a new interplanetary exploration initiative. He was...
May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
... commercial payloads were launched into low Earth and geostationary orbit (LEO and GEO). Many of these were ...devices. The far side could be monitored either from lunar orbit or from Lagrange point 2. However, unlike their terrestrial counterparts...
06 October 2015
Facebook, Eutelsat to beam Internet from space to Africa
... and inefficient, so we need to invent new technologies,” he said. The Israeli company Spacecom’s Amos-6 satellite will fly in geostationary orbit, Eutelsat said in a press release. Facebook and Eutelsat have agreed to pay $95 million for a five-year...
27 November 2015
Space Elevator Could be Made out of Diamonds
...a cable anchored on Earth and reach out beyond geostationary orbit. Gravitational and centrifugal forces would then ensure that ... elevator could then be used to deliver cargo into orbit without the need for rockets. Nanothreads specifically could be ...
04 July 2017
Rocket failure could delay China's Chang'e 5 mission
.... The rocket was carrying Shijian-18, a seven metric tonne experimental communications satellite that was to be placed into geostationary orbit, some 36,000 km above Earth. Great expectations are riding on the success of the Long March 5 which was...
July 2014
Achilles’ heel
..., advances in materials science and satellite design have meant that the operational lifetime of a satellite in geostationary orbit, assuming no extraordinary solar activity, is determined more by its ability to remain correctly pointed, than by its...
