January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
...NASA announcement on commercial platforms. Today, Nanoracks is creating the stepping stones in LEO (low Earth orbit) and GEO (geostationary orbit) that will allow us to populate the solar system with commercial laboratories. We are beginning to focus...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
... of data for weather forecasting from geostationary orbit into the next decades and will also...Temperature Monitoring satellite has been launched into a low-Earth polar orbit, it will start to map rates of evapotranspiration with unprecedented fidelity...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... seen by radio telescopes on Earth because they are blocked by our ionosphere. If we could position a radio telescope up at geostationary orbit (GEO) or higher, well above the ionosphere, we could observe and characterise these short-lived phenomena...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... structure around an equilibrium of acceleration. This can happen in a stationary orbit around a rotating celestial body or a Lagrange point. Geosynchronous equatorial or geostationary orbit (GEO), offers such an equilibrium for Earth. A body such...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
... after, a spectacular aurora, bright enough to cast shadows, appeared along the southern coast of Britain. Spacecraft in geostationary orbit effectively became solar wind detectors as Earth’s magnetic shield buckled under the extreme solar wind...
January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
... LEO/GEO interference. Twenty years ago the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) declared that NGSO (non-geostationary orbit) craft carry the responsibility for avoiding interference with GEO satellites. Consequently, the need to mitigate the...
