March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
... is limited by very high cost and extreme risk. Experience in low Earth orbit (LEO) and on a handful of manned flights to the Moon... healthy. To support one astronaut for one year in Earth orbit requires around 8000 kg of supplies, excluding fuel. With...
April 2017
Mega-challenges for mega-constellations
... Several information technology and electronics companies have announced plans to provide such service via large constellations in low Earth orbit (LEO) by 2018-2020. The proposed concepts foresee spanning a global, leak-proof network of inter-linked...
February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
... in spaceflight from earlier decades. EAC is now also focused on future exploration beyond the ISS and low Earth orbit (LEO) operations, and is actively developing collaborative programmes related to deep space exploration missions. EAC is Neutral...
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
... such as SpaceX and OneWeb to add thousands of new small satellites to the 1000 or so active satellites already in low Earth orbit make the sustainable management of space debris more important than ever. In an attempt to address this, the MAAC...
July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
.... We have seven missions on contract right now, and we’re also planning a crewed version which could take people to a low Earth orbit platform. What we envisage long term is multiple platforms, connected together with nodes and serviced by the Dream...
April 2025
Spacecraft anomalies and insurance losses
... in this article, because most major insured spacecraft are in GEO. Low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation operators sometimes insure the launches of their spacecraft, but not for in-orbit risks and such is the number of their spacecraft that they...
