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...
March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
... that is still widely used. The effective use of the spectrum by large SC during television transmission from geostationary orbit is telling – the same frequency may be used by satellites in different positions and additionally radiate with different...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
... demonstrated similar capabilities. And now, a Russian Luch satellite is manoeuvring from one satellite to another in geostationary orbit. Apart from potentially hostile activities, we face a threat from the growing population of space debris. This...
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...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
... measures to remove objects from low Earth orbit (LEO) and geostationary orbit (GEO) after the end of their ...knowledge could apply to tacit consent in the context of these in-orbit operations. ESA is planning the world’s first ever active debris ...
