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 ...
April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
... cover the Earth in eight shells with different altitudes and inclinations. Each dot represents one satellite. Constellations Satellite constellations are groups of spacecraft of the same design, distributed among a series of orbits in order to cover...
05 August 2016
Rio 2016 Summer Olympics Games, Brought to You by Your Local Satellite
... providers, and ground equipment suppliers), such as Eutelsat, Intelsat, SES and Telesat, operate over 150 geostationary satellites and bring connectivity to broadcasters who in turn transmit live video content of the Games to their customers around...
May 2018
Delivering farming solutions with satellite-powered data analytics
... to get an estimate of total agricultural production. This is a very manual and time intensive process. Smart sampling, using satellite-based crop clustering techniques can be used to reduce the time for identification of these plots and optimising...
