22 July 2022
Astraius plans horizontal rocket launch from Scotland in 2024
... you can't launch east. Conversely, if you're in Florida typically you're not going to be able to get to a polar orbit.” While launching a dozen rockets per year each carrying a 800 kg satellite would be an ideal scenario, Clark said ...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
... 1.3 µm, 1.6 µm and 2.2 µm. Once the Land Surface Temperature Monitoring satellite has been launched into a low-Earth polar orbit, it will start to map rates of evapotranspiration with unprecedented fidelity. Every three days it will image the entire...
14 July 2022
Europe's Vega-C rocket makes successful debut flight
... and an up-rated fourth stage, Vega-C increases performance from 1.5 tonnes to about 2.3 tonnes in a reference 700 km polar orbit. "Today we opened a new era of European launch solutions, starting with Vega-C and soon to be complemented by Ariane...
03 August 2018
Space activity at Farnborough FIA 2018
... the site at the A’ Mhoine peninsula in Sutherland, as being the first vertical launch orbital access Spaceport in Britain for northward direction polar orbit and high inclination Sun-synchronous satellite payloads. The government is giving the...
October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
..., and around five minutes behind NOAA’s Suomi-National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi-NPP). Whereas MetOp and future MetOp-SG satellites fly on a mid-morning orbit (09:30), this early afternoon orbit has several advantages for the science returns...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
...goal is to capture a heavy, ESAowned item of debris and remove it from an altitude of 800-1000 km in a near-polar orbit. Justified intervention In conclusion, and in order to determine whether an operation of ADR or OOS on a non-cooperative satellite...
