13 September 2017
New constellation to reshape Earth observation market
... that will be unrivalled in our industry for a long time.” The very high communication bandwidth possible with lasers – of up to 1.8 Gbit/s – means that up to 40 terabytes of data per day can be transmitted securely in quasi-real-time to Earth. This...
16 December 2020
Russian anti-satellite missile test troubles US Space Command
... President Putin announced the development of a ground-based laser system for use by the Russian Space Forces, which the Russian military ...acknowledged as a "combat laser system”. The US says this pattern of behaviour would ...
14 July 2022
Europe's Vega-C rocket makes successful debut flight
... one which is perfectly adapted to future European needs.” The Italian Space Agency’s LARES-2 (Laser Relativity Satellite 2) is a 36.4 cm diameter passive sphere with laser mirrors for the study of Earth’s gravitational field. Its main objectives are...
July 2014
Achilles’ heel
... space segments include: • radiation environment; • bandwidth interference (e.g. denial of service, piracy, jamming, spoofing, lasers); • military threats (e.g. anti-satellite weapons (ASAT), high-altitude nuclear explosion); • cyber attack; • space...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
.... Its interior mass distribution and topography have been mapped by use of gravity measurements from orbit and laser altimeter reflections. In a quest for potentially habitable conditions, landers and surface rovers have carried out up-close...
December 2014
From the green economy to green space
... technologies have been mooted and developed, for example non-toxic rocket fuel, or using energy from laser rays to move rockets. In Russia the concept of ‘green’ technologies for space activity and a ‘green’ strategy of development...
