March 2021
Eyes on the prize
... the UK cannot focus on incremental gains. Disruptive opportunities are arising, including micro-launchers, miniaturisation, robotics, mega-constellations, and growing demand for satellite communications and Earth observation data from new AI-driven...
January 2023
Space sustainability imperative
... Fragile Space took me to the top of volcanoes in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, clean rooms across Europe, mega-constellation launches on both coasts of the United States within a few days of each other, and a farm in England. It also...
23 September 2016
ESA launch CleanSat initiative to clean up space debris
With a growing population of satellites competing for space around Earth’s orbit and with the possibility of mega-constellations adding hundreds if not thousands more satellites to the seemingly already saturated skies, the European Space Agency is ...
24 April 2017
Call for international help with space debris
... said Holger Krag, Head of ESA’s Space Debris Office and conference chair. And, with the rise of mega constellations containing thousands of satellites that will be deployed into a low orbit, this problem will only be exacerbated by an unsustainably...
01 January 2020
What has been in 2019 and what is to come in 2020!
... Emirates may also launch its Mars Hope orbiter. SpaceX will continue to launch its controversial Starlink mega-constellation and its Crewed Dragon capsule is set to send a human crew to the International Space Station in the coming...
23 September 2020
Third move for the ISS this year to avoid space debris
... problem is only set to rise as the skies are becoming increasingly more crowded. Not only will satellite mega constellations flood low-Earth orbit with thousands of units, space-faring nations conducting anti-satellite missile launches...
