March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
... satellite prices, which is also transferred to satellite integrators, launch service providers and equipment suppliers. New technologies, capabilities and entrants into the market, both satellite and terrestrial, are expected to increase competition...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... the Proba series of Earth- and Sun-monitoring minisatellites, ESA believes that the best proof that new technologies can indeed perform as envisaged is to utilise them in useful scientific investigations. But to achieve meaningful science within the...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
... the northern territories with a cosmic mirror based on solar sail technologies. The gas people didn’t take an interest in the mirror,...start-ups by the end of the first decade of the new century. In 2009, Selenokhod, headed by Nikolay Dzis-Voinarovsky...
September 2017
Engaging the private sector in space exploration
... is a promising opportunity to establish a commercial lunar transport service in Europe. Such capability would enable the testing of new technologies and the delivery of scientific payloads to the Moon, leading the way for a future of prolonged space...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... The MarCO CubeSats will be carrying a whole suite of new technologies never tested before in deep space. This includes NASA JPL...determination and control package developed by Blue Canyon Technologies called the XACT, which enables three-axis ...
September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
... these regions to ‘leap frog’ over legacy communications infrastructure issues that might slow down adoption of new technologies. The Internet of Things is a great example of this. It is currently only available to developed markets because they have...
