...without a full explanation of the causes of the recent launcher failure. A public announcement was made on the following ... small batteries, to cover some launch scenarios in which the launcher would carry it through Earth eclipse, so we could count ...
... to 120 km altitude, thereby measuring the entire atmosphere. The T-Minus launch team on the T-Minus Mobile rocket launcher Miniaturised sensor systems and electronics that are available nowadays make it possible to perform a lot of science within...
... was exported to a Singapore-Taiwanese company in 2011. There are several more cases of Japanese satellite manufacturers and launcher systems winning international competitions in Qatar, Turkey, Canada and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Japan has...
...) projects. As another example of this trend, ESA and Germany’s DLR are supporting European companies in developing micro-launchers via grants, instead of developing their own new smallsat launch systems. Market oriented new applications, like...
... that time, there were several commercial companies building small spacecraft and launching them as a rideshare on conventional launchers. While these small satellites became more advanced, the plans regarding their applications became more ambitious...
..., its passengers, the launch site infrastructure and the tracking station network. Designated Flight VS14 in Arianespace's launcher family numbering system, the medium-lift Soyuz carries a mixed payload of the Sentinel-1B C-band radar observation...