October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
... spacecraft. Yet, it doesn’t even include all the launches performed in 2017, with for example the impressive 88 nanosatellites deployed by Planet on 14 February. Wait a minute It may be that androids posing ethical dilemmas represent a future from...
February 2018
Growth drivers, requirements and threats in the smallsat industry
...kg) - will experience strong growth while the larger mass categories are expected to stagnate or even decline. Nanosatellites (up to 10 kg) will continue to take the greatest share. Microsatellites (10-200 kg), however, are becoming the standard mass...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... were put out of service for one reason or another. Alternative solutions have also emerged, such as relay nanosatellites capable of being orbited in their hundreds if necessary. The fusion of civil and military space programmes ultimately confirmed...
July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
... reduce the population of orbital debris, while the launch of constellations of hundreds, maybe even thousands, of micro and nanosatellites to LEO will increase the density of active space objects that will eventually become orbital debris if their...
July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
...a stratospheric balloon and sounding rockets as well as recoverable microgravity platforms and automatic satellites, from nanosatellites and CubeSats up to satellites of five tonnes. But only parabolic and orbital flights allow biomedical experiments...
February 2020
Debunking the myths on space patents
... in putting this kind of sensor in a microsatellite. Meanwhile, in another example, Planet runs a factory that manufactures over 100 nanosatellites each year to replace the ones that re-enter the atmosphere. So the technology has evolved from pure...
