June 2022
Patent protection for space manufacturing
... and more readily available. This has already been seen in the space industry with the development of nanosatellites and the like. Given that a patent term is 20 years, if launching manufacturing satellites can become affordable in the...
16 October 2015
Hitchhikers no more: NASA picks 3 firms to launch cubesats
... are not available if we only fly as secondary payloads,” said Garrett Skrobot, lead for the Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) mission for NASA’s Launch Services Programme. “These are still experimental satellites, but the technology...
14 November 2017
Space nation launches first satellite into orbit
... of the OA-8 Antares-Cygnus mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and will be deployed along with 13 other nanosatellites after Cygnus completes its mission at the ISS and is placed into a higher orbit. Igor Ashurbeyli, Asgardia...
08 February 2019
New Orbex rocket revealed
..., which plans to loft an experimental payload. Astrocast SA of Switzerland also intends to be on an early launch with their nanosatellites aimed to create a planet-wide ‘Internet of Things” network. In addition, Elecnor Deimos has contracted for...
05 August 2019
Weaponised satellites to be part of new space force says France
... to finance this new space activity. It was also revealed that the ministry has plans to create a swarm of nanosatellites to be placed around France’s most strategic objects with effect from 2023. France plans to have its new...
14 October 2019
First dedicated commercial smallsat mission to Mars unveiled
...’s will be designed and built by SatRevolution, who have already sent its Światowid spacecraft, Poland’s first commercial nanosatellite, into orbit last year. These, of course will not be the first small satellites to visit another planet...
