30 May 2017
Plans for Europe's first commercial video satellite constellation
...-i, based in Guildford, Surrey, says its train of satellites will deliver rapid, high-resolution imagery of the planet which...customer base, announced the move to begin operating its own satellites on the opening day of the biennial UK Space Conference...
02 January 2018
2017 - What a year!
...around Earth following the launch of its Asgardia-1 satellite in November and Zero 2 Infinity successfully launched its... a very busy year for NASA! NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) which is designed to detect small rock-and-ice ...
12 July 2017
MODIS satellite confirms massive ice shelf rift
NASA’s Aqua MODIS satellite instrument has confirmed that an iceberg... Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) is a key instrument aboard the Terra and Aqua satellites, which scan the entire Earth's surface every one to two days and sometime ...
March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
...difficult to distinguish from the stars. So began the magnificent launch of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) core satellite. The US ambassador to Japan, Ms. Caroline Kennedy, made a special statement before the press, saying that her father...
October 2017
Saving geostationary orbit
... so providing a convenient location from which to relay telephone communications). The first truly geostationary (geosynchronous equatorial orbit) satellite, Syncom 3, was not launched until 1964, but this prime orbital real-estate was soon exploited...
April 2018
Transforming the launch market for small spacecraft
...is OneWeb, a company that has contracted with Arianespace to launch a mega-constellation of almost 700 small satellites. The bulk of these satellites are planned to launch as rideshare on the large and well-established Soyuz launch vehicle, for which...
