November 2019
Mexico’s path to space
..., and television services, and then Solidaridad 1 and 2 operated from 1997. These satellites were eventually privatised and converted into the Satmex Satellite System. More recently, during the first decade of the 21st century, the Mexican...
October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
... project since late 2009, in the dual role of platform system engineer and payload interface manager. He is also involved in Space Debris Mitigation, and in particular satellite re-entry risks. Nicolas holds a PhD from Kingston University London...
May 2017
Could Brexit blow a hole in UK’s space ambitions?
...the final nature of Brexit. The EU itself is a major contributor to ESA, principally for the Galileo global navigation satellite system (GNSS), which began operations in December 2016, and the Copernicus Earth observation programmes. Funded and owned...
April 2019
The changing economics of space
... touted there will still be a place for large geostationary satellites. In-orbit satellite servicing missions will soon be available to better manage these costly and complex satellite systems and to maximise their life-time return on investment for...
October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
... within the magnetosphere, ionosphere and thermosphere. Aurora and radio emissions will be elucidated. Within Jupiter’s satellite system, JUICE will also study the moons’ interactions with the magnetosphere, gravitational coupling and long-term ...
February 2018
CubeSats changing the landscape for ‘app’ developers
...difference in orders of magnitude when comparing the processor speed and memory of flight hardware of a typical satellite system with mainstream desktop computing platforms on Earth. A 10-year lag is observed between the radiation-hardened processors...
