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 ...
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...
04 December 2017
After 37 years, Voyager 1 fires up dormant thrusters
... properly for as long as possible. Hoping to resolve the problem, the Voyager team assembled a group of propulsion experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, to study the situation. Their solution was to hand over the job...
