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...
18 January 2016
Falcon 9 Launches Successfully, Though First Stage Landing Fails
... upper stage placed the Jason-3 spacecraft into a parking orbit nine minutes after launch, and the spacecraft separated from the...will be placed into a near-polar orbit, ultimately at an altitude of 1,336 kilometers, the same orbit as that used by the ...
24 February 2021
Orbex commissions industrial 3D printer for rocket engines
... will be critical parts of Orbex's launch vehicle, a 19 m long ‘microlauncher’ rocket, designed to deliver small satellites into polar orbits around the Earth. Planning permission was granted for Orbex's home spaceport, Space Hub Sutherland, at the...
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...
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 ...
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...
