...work already undertaken by ESA for their GOCE gravity-mapper satellite. GOCE also utilised an electric thruster design, but it ... to continually replenish the onboard fuel and thus keep the satellite working. “This project began with a novel design to ...
... timing and navigation system and it plans to have 35 active satellites in orbit by 2020 to provide global GNSS coverage. The launch.... The three-stage solid-propellant rocket will carry a satellite roughly the size of a three-unit cubesat for a...
... system in orbit to skewer a piece of metal acting as a satellite panel. The Airbus Stevenage designed harpoon was fired at 20 metres/sec...State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation. The satellite has so far passed all test thrown at it, ...
...on the new data provided by TESS just a few months after the satellite took to the skies, a smaller companion has been found whizzing around... “first light” science image (below) that the satellite relayed back is a stunning vista of the southern sky...