August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... transport way-station for transitioning from chemically fuelled rocket launchers to much more efficient electric ion propulsion systems that could fly on to the Moon and Mars? Conceptual study of magnetic structure in space to create a safe...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... up in the atmosphere, undock from that descending debris and then travel, using its highly efficient electric propulsion engine, to another spacecraft or debris object and deorbit that too; and so forth, to allow an economic commercial system...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... undergoes a deorbiting manoeuvre. Space-based laser This is another contactless technique, based on the principle of ablative laser propulsion, which relies on using a high-power laser to ablate the debris surface. As the vapour is ejected from the...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
...(Size, Weight and Power) and most capable electric propulsion for spacecraft autonomy, collision avoidance and deorbiting once ...validate the company’s proprietary clean and water-based propulsion technologies. Stay tuned. About the author Josephine ...
April 2025
Spacecraft anomalies and insurance losses
... concentrate their efforts. Indeed, the power subsystem may grow in importance as more satellites come to rely on electric propulsion for orbit raising. Meanwhile, antennas and beams already cause 40 percent of high-value, sometimes extremely large...
10 March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
... platform and the implementation of a mission in partnership with SES. Compared to chemical propulsion, full-electric propulsion weigh less, letting operators choose between a lighter spacecraft or one with more payload, even though it takes...
