November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... will be jettisoned and chemical propulsion of the MPO will be used to inject both spacecraft into their dedicated polar orbits. The Japanese MMO will be released first, after which an additional thrust phase will insert the European...
26 May 2017
First results from Juno mission
...field, this complex, turbulent world has Earth-sized polar cyclones and storm systems that reach deep into .... At the moment, Juno will be flying around Jupiter in a polar orbit where it remains at a reasonable distance from the planet. However once...
April 2018
Future Cubesat swarms pose significant communications challenges
... featuring GPS receivers with radio occultation. HiDEF was designed with 90 swarm spacecraft in low Earth polar orbits to monitor electric field and thermosphere density of the auroral Lower-Thermosphere-Ionosphere region [9]. The eLISA mission ...
February 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... managed by the China Meteorological Administration. Within the meteorological programME, the odd-numbered satellites (FY 1, FY 3) refer to polar orbiting low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, while the even-numbered satellites are geostationary Earth...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
.... The main hurdle, however, is the safety case for vertical launch to sun-synchronous orbit and polar orbit, as it would require land overflight, most notably over the vicinity of the Norwegian city of Tromsø. CST believes ...
April 2018
Climate monitoring and the need for open access to global environmental satellite data
... the 1990s, and USGS opened the Landsat archive for free, unrestricted access in 2008. Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (SNPPS) satellite. The open data movement was not limited to the United States, and neither...
