21 August 2017
First Slovak satellite launched into space
... two years waiting for its debut, the first Slovak satellite skCUBE has been launched into space. Designed and constructed ...Slovakia the 78th country in the world to send its own satellite into space and although the 1U CubeSat project may seem small...
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 ...
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...
May 2019
Unlocking the full potential of Earth observation
...data, but they wouldn’t be able to offload it all in this narrow window. To make the most of Earth observation satellites, there needs to be a high-speed data connection in space. Flight Engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor installs the NanoRacks Cubesat...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
...brightness signatures down to 18th magnitude. The US space surveillance network, the largest in the world, routinely ‘loses’ satellites all of the time, as the figure on page 63 illustrates. ASATs Although it would seem advisable to limit the ability...
