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...
14 October 2019
First dedicated commercial smallsat mission to Mars unveiled
... a dozen Polish universities to establish a new consortium with an aim to carry out the world’s first dedicated commercial small satellite mission to Mars. With a proposed launch date expected as early as 2022 for the first-of-its-kind CubeSat...
17 September 2018
IAI and Effective Space in technological and financial cooperation
...the SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft is a result of decades of experience in the field of small satellites. ‘Phase One’ services will see the spacecraft dock with existing satellites in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit that are reaching the end of their normal life...
19 September 2019
Annual Global MilSatCom conference and exhibition returns to London
... ground. The focus day will bring together leading commercial solution providers, those at the cutting edge of small satellite R&D (including Oxford Space Systems from the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus) and government end-users – to discuss...
March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
... to the International Space Station (ISS). The failure destroyed 2,290 kg of cargo bound for the ISS, as well as 26 small satellites from commercial remote sensing company Planet Labs. While disappointment followed the accident, one theme resonated...
September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
...-two centimetre population in order to validate and improve debris modelling. One interesting programme is Astroscale’s IDEA OSG1 small satellite, which will use two Space Debris Monitors supplied by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA). It is due...
