February 2019
European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection
...over the ground station on Spitsbergen, one of the Svalbard islands, as well as McMurdo station in Antarctica. The satellite design is based on a three-axis stabilised configuration, consisting of a service module and a payload module. Its dimensions...
09 October 2019
The first satellite servicing spacecraft launches successfully
... was its payload. Stowed onboard was a pioneering Northrop Grumman-built satellite designed for one purpose - to give ageing spacecraft a new lease of life. The satellite in question is the Mission Extension Vehicle, or MEV 1, and it is the industry...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... not only a heavily instrumented mock-up payload, meant to accurately measure the launch environment, but also two 15 kg satellites, designed and built primarily by undergraduate students. This occurred just one year after the first CubeSats were...
18 December 2019
After delays, ESA’s exoplanet mission launches successfully
... use technologies that have already been tried and tested in space, and driving several aspects of the satellite design. “Both Cheops instrument and spacecraft are built to be extremely stable, so as to measure the incredibly small variations in the...
20 December 2022
Outpost to develop ISS cargo ferry under NASA contract
...first space company to develop a platform for returning satellites to Earth, has been selected by NASA for further...is for an adaptation of the firm’s Earth returning Ferry satellite, designed to deliver cargo from space stations back to Earth. Outpost...
08 January 2023
GPS
... that “the story of GPS’s origins has been told”. What remains unexplained, in his opinion, is how a system of satellites designed for the US military has “become a part of ordinary citizens’ lives”; I would respectfully suggest that the author...
