28 March 2019
India carries out first-ever anti-satellite weapon test
... of debris; hundreds of which will remain floating around in orbit for decades to come. In 2008, the US shot down a satellite at a lower altitude of 240 kilometres, but due to the decreased distance it produced minimal debris that decayed out...
04 September 2019
A near miss as ESA and SpaceX satellites nearly collide
...of the spacecrafts. Last week, ESA got news that a satellite from SpaceX’s Starlink constellation was starting to edge its way ...of thruster burns to position itself away from the Starlink satellite. About half an hour later Aeolus contacted home, thus...
16 December 2020
Russian anti-satellite missile test troubles US Space Command
...space weapon”, according to a US Space Command Statement. In February, the Space Command observers spotted the Russian satellites following a US spy satellite, behaviour that Space Command Gen. John ‘Jay’ Raymond described at the time as "unusual and...
08 May 2018
Raytheon builds small satellites for Department of Homeland Security
... efficiently and cost effectively. "With our automated production lines, Raytheon can produce highly reliable, small satellites quickly and affordably," said Dr. Thomas Bussing, Raytheon Advanced Missile Systems vice president. "Because our advanced...
11 January 2019
Revolutionary "Chameleon" satellite ready for final assembly
... 1 tonne, which is an order of magnitude bigger than any other satellite they have built in the past, the design marks a shift from ... take command and optimise capacity use autonomously.” The satellite will soon travel from SSTL Guildford to join the ...
07 August 2019
Successful launch of the second SpaceDataHighway satellite
... EDRS-A which transmits on a daily basis the images of Earth acquired by the Copernicus programme’s four Sentinel observation satellites. Since it entered service in late 2016, it has achieved more than 20,000 laser connections. The reliability rate...
