October 2024
EO data - the fuel that makes climate action possible
...seven percent are inspected for leaks. AI & multi-satellite imaging This data is also crucial for financial institutions...applying advanced algorithms to images from a wide range of satellite imagery for any given area of interest, the precise location...
25 May 2016
Successful liftoff for Soyuz
... system. When it is integrated into the COSPAS-SARSAT system, the Search and Rescue (SAR) Transponder on Galileo satellites will enable nearly real-time detection and localisation of distress signals from anywhere in the world, thus...
10 January 2019
Successful launch of formation-flying microsatellite constellation
... Canadian CanX-4/CanX-5 mission. “We have developed compact, low-cost formation flying technology that no other small satellite developer can credibly offer,” said SFL Director Dr. Robert E. Zee. Precise formation flying is critical to the HawkEye...
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
...extraordinary situation that space transportation has reached can be explained by looking at the history of spaceflight. The first satellites in the 1950s were launched using converted ballistic missiles, as these were the first objects able to reach...
January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
... up from Earth. Instead, most of them will be 90 percent manufactured on ‘outposts’; the software will be uploaded and you’ll do satellite deployment on demand from orbiting platforms, not from launch vehicles. You’ll use the launch vehicles to send...
April 2024
Unlocking the NewSpace economy through space-based solar power
... refuelling infrastructure, both chemical and electrical. Planning in-orbit servicing and maintenance missions is difficult as the original satellites were never designed to be maintained. SBSP will be designed for this and help to pave the way for...
