October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
... Launch Complex in Alaska has hosted a series of launches from 2001 and with NewSpace companies wanting to launch small satellites, is likely to have a bright future. In 2019, China developed a version of the Long March CZ-11 rocket to launch from...
12 August 2019
Communicating water-powered CubeSats tested in space by NASA
... successfully completed. Collecting data while whizzing round Earth is one thing, but a common challenge when developing small-satellite-borne Earth Observation (EO) missions is getting that data to the ground. Transmitting data via radio frequencies...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... in the development of viable, private space travel and cheaper options for launching small satellites. On the ground, terrestrial innovation in satellite communications took a step forward when Thuraya Telecommunications, the Dubai-based mobile...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... for space mining ventures and Planetary Resources, together with 3D Systems, is currently developing a prototype small satellite. This Arkyd satellite bus configuration uses its efficient torus shape to hold the propellant and also provide the...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
... a special review, as it is closely connected with the accelerated development of technology and the possibility of using small satellites as kinetic kill vehicles against a potential enemy. These circumstances point to the fact that the space debris...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
...Clarke’ orbital plane, broadcasting a never-ending stream of data, broadcast, radio and TV. New constellations of hundreds of small satellites in low Earth orbit are being proposed as well. Our digital world is connected by these orbital broadcasting...
