February 2018
Growth drivers, requirements and threats in the smallsat industry
... Kibo module on the ISS. Intended to observe Earth and monitor climate changes, this was the first microsatellite owned by the Philippine government that involved Filipino engineers in the development. It is estimated that 80 percent of global space...
March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
... (COTS) components and reliable use in space is attained through heritage design practices from SAC’s experience in microsatellites that include latch-up protection against radiation events, as well as redundancy and error-correction for the on-board...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
... measurements of vegetation from space; Iceye, a Finnish firm whose future 18-spacecraft synthetic aperture radar (SAR) microsatellite constellation will revisit targets of interest every few hours to enable better decision making in governmental and...
February 2020
Debunking the myths on space patents
... of its SAR sensor almost deployed in Earth orbit. Today, companies are able to put this kind of sensor in a microsatellite. Patent myths Intellectual property protection is not mainstream in space Many myths surround the subject of patents in the...
27 November 2017
ASTROSCALE and SSTL join forces to get rid of space debris
...forward with the launch of IDEA OSG 1 – the world’s first in-situ space debris monitoring microsatellite in LEO. The microsatellite will launch tomorrow (28 November) with the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos meteorology mission Meteor-M No2...
March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
.... Sputnix developed a standard set for mechanical, electronic and data interfaces and implemented them in its own microsatellite platform TableSat. This allowed the company to create and launch its first satellite ERS, TabletSat-Aurora...
