...regulating chemicals produced or imported in the EU. Part of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) solar array returned from low Earth orbit by astronauts after the HST’s first service mission, showing the atomic oxygen protection silicone coating to have...
... global broadband, while Google and Samsung are also mulling similar initiatives. With all these satellites, low-Earth orbit - at an altitude of 2,000km (1,200 miles) or less above the planet - is becoming an increasingly crowded space. When I spoke...
... of Things (IoT) applications. Some of these are designed to provide low latency (low signal delay) mobile broadband communications and thus need to be operated from low Earth orbit (LEO), with very large numbers of satellites required to provide...
... that is essential for COTM applications. When a COTM antenna is communicating with a satellite in low Earth orbit (LEO) and medium Earth orbit (MEO), the complexity of tracking increases further, making the use of electronically steerable antennas...
...NASA's next generation spacecraft, will take astronauts Beyond Low-Earth Orbit (BLEO) and into deep space. Orion can carry...the craft from extreme temperatures experienced on reentry into Earth's atmosphere. During Orion's Exploration Flight Test (EFT...
... million euros ($266 million), which includes construction and launch of the satellite, three years operations in low Earth orbit, and the ground infrastructure. The launch is expected to happen in 2020 on either a Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket...