March 2022
Smoothing the journey to space with the satellite-as-a-service model
...-as-a-service and mission-as-a-service A solution to this challenge involves using a shared-access, single host/multi-tenant satellite. This approach can dramatically lower costs and speed up the development schedule of many areas of space technology...
May 2018
Satellite data helps combat illegal shark fishing
... The types of data incorporated into the system include: Open and proprietary vessel tracking telemetry Satellite-based RADAR observations Satellite-based optical and near-infrared imagery Unmanned aerial, surface or underwater vehicle sensors Global...
August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
... The key requirement for this technique is spatial resolution and the best resolution achievable by non-military satellite is currently 25-30 cm. This limits the application of the technology to ML items with a size on the same order of magnitude for...
07 November 2019
SSTL ships target satellite to Tokyo for Astroscale’s ELSA-d mission
... to identify and estimate attitude before deploying a capture extension mechanism with a magnetic plate to latch on to the Target satellite. Whilst rendezvous has been performed in orbit in the past, ELSA-d will demonstrate the first semi-autonomous...
April 2017
Mega-challenges for mega-constellations
... first phase was a steep population increase, which extended from the launch of the first satellites of the constellation until these satellites started to re-enter due to post-mission disposal manoeuvres (30 years after their launch in this scenario...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
...350-kilogram refuelling spacecraft that could refuel up to three satellites. More recently, NASA held an industry day in 2017... US$300 million to buy and launch a new satellite. Moving an old satellite to the emerging region’s orbital position with a ...
