21 December 2020
Innovative design could see CubeSats "steam-powered"
... only two moving parts and delivers enough total impulse (1,800 Ns with 1 kilogram of water) to maintain a CubeSat in a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) altitude of 375 kilometres for more than five years. This represents a huge potential savings in satellite...
08 October 2020
Asgardia joins International Astronautical Federation
...CET), Lena De Winne will be moderating a high-profile session on the ‘ISS commercialisation and future industry innovation in low Earth orbit’, which will take the form of a conversation between industry leaders on how the International Space Station...
September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
...Myriota’s core-business is building small, self-contained modules that communicate directly with a constellation of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Collected data is transferred to ground stations where all the transmissions received from thousands...
September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
... 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...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
... 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...
09 December 2015
France and Germany Confirm Plans to Launch Methane Monitoring Satellite
... 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...
