March 2019
The changing economics of space
...This generally comes under the heading of in-orbit servicing, which means attaching a servicing spacecraft to a target, aged satellite, so that the docking spacecraft can manipulate it. There are several ways in which this hard docking of a servicing...
September 2019
Expectations in a connected world
... is imperative in ensuring reliable and flexible control of this ever-growing environment. A global network of data exchange satellites. For satellite and terrestrial operators alike, gone are the days that any single operator has full control...
20 April 2016
Satellite company OneWeb announce ambitious plans for world-wide internet coverage
... manufacturing plant being developed by Blue Origin and OneWeb hopes to start manufacturing in 2017, with the first 10-satellite launch scheduled for late 2017 or early 2018. The full constellation is expected to be in orbit by the end of 2019...
04 September 2020
Rocket Lab secretly launches its first own designed and built satellite
... the Rocket Lab Space Systems division. Sinclair Interplanetary products have become key features of the Photon satellite platforms, and Rocket Lab is also dedicating resources to grow Sinclair’s already strong merchant spacecraft components business...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... by a considerable amount, including Kepler, Cassini and Voyager 1 and 2 to name just a few). During this period, the satellite will survey nearly the entire sky by scanning contiguous overlapping sectors for 27 days at a time, each measuring...
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...
