April 2021
Norway’s pioneering use of microsatellites
.... Operational constellation With more than two million square kilometres of ocean areas, much of which is in the Arctic, monitoring and control is a challenge AISSat-1’s original purpose was to test detection of AIS signals in space. But even the...
June 2022
Space logistics: achieving end-to-end mobility for space
.... Automated solutions are necessary on the ground to reduce the workload of the operators in coordinating a full constellation. By monitoring the spacecraft and their orbits, automated manoeuvres are used to simplify the orbit maintenance and the...
October 2017
Saving geostationary orbit
... been placed in GEO. In the future, such monitoring missions may help to provide warning of extreme space weather... a hazard again. These orbital changes can potentially be monitored with existing tracking telescopes, but the rotational effects created...
May 2019
Unlocking the full potential of Earth observation
... datasets from hyperspectral satellites, mineral prospecting, agricultural output and forestry management could all be optimised. If weather monitoring satellites could get their data down faster, airlines could save 20 percent on fuel costs by more...
13 March 2020
ESA and NASA select first science instruments to send to Gateway
...external scientific investigations. ESA’s hardware will actively monitor radiation at all times and return data for...furthest, 70 000 km. The radiation investigation will continue to monitor the changes in protons, electrons and heavy ions and neutrons...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
... the world. Meanwhile, in Washington DC, vice-president Al Gore was taking steps to make his vision for a climate monitoring satellite a reality. The satellite, officially called Triana but nicknamed Goresat, was under development to take real...
