August 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
...to continue investing in Dream Chaser, a reusable, multi-mission space utility vehicle capable of transporting payloads and people...November’s free-flight test crew team photo. Our return mission scenario is very flexible: it allows us to deliver ...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
... constellations does not exist at scale today The first of two transformational concepts covered in this article is the ‘multi-mission ground segment as a service’ model. This involves leveraging the capacity of any one ground system to support the...
July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
Sierra Nevada Corporation is best known as the owner and operator of the Dream Chaser® spaceplane, a multi-mission space utility vehicle capable of transporting cargo - and eventually crew - to low Earth orbit. But there is more to ...
April 2021
Norway’s pioneering use of microsatellites
... in-orbit demonstration by starting the NorSat-TD (Technology Demonstrator) project. VDES antenna for NorSat-2. This multi-national, multi-mission satellite, weighing just 30 kg and no bigger than airline carry-on luggage, will fly six demonstration...
October 2020
Pandemic impacts - the state of the ground segment
.... Unlike the traditional dedicated ground station approach, which supports just one mission per station, the multi-mission model supports many missions from any one ground station. Additionally, in offering access to ground stations as a service...
13 September 2017
New constellation to reshape Earth observation market
.... With plans for their next-generation ground segments to offer machine learning, automated analytics applications, multi-mission capabilities and large-scale image processing, Airbus are on track to increase their digitalisation and connectivity...
