12 November 2018
"Its Business Time" for Rocket Lab's first commercial flight
... commercial launch successfully deploy six small satellites into a low-Earth orbit over the weekend; a move that opens up the... inactive, small satellites using atmospheric drag. The Electron orbital launch vehicle had its inaugural test flight in May ...
28 March 2019
India carries out first-ever anti-satellite weapon test
... missile test and successfully obliterated a low earth orbit satellite in space. Codenamed “Mission Shakti...to the decreased distance it produced minimal debris that decayed out of orbit within a year. The target destroyed in India’s Mission Shakti was...
20 June 2023
Orbex teams with Arianespace
... collaboration would be particularly beneficial for customers planning small satellite constellations, providing a flexible solution for low Earth orbit (LEO) payloads. Light and heavy-lift launch vehicles could jointly support customers in deploying...
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...
September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
...systematically tracked have a size greater than 10 cm diameter in low Earth orbit (LEO) and greater than 1 m in geosynchronous orbit (GEO). This means that the whereabouts of the majority of orbital debris is unknown. Space agencies and companies are...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
...exploration of deep space, the primary purpose of SLS is to enable NASA’s journey to Mars and propel humans beyond low Earth orbit for the first time in almost half a century. The initial configuration of SLS - Block 1 - will be capable of delivering...
