30 May 2023
Virgin Orbit cuts its losses and ceases operations
... operational launches, which all lifted off from California, were all successful and had deployed a total of 33 small satellites. But what turned out to be the company's final mission still notched up a number of space firsts, including the...
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...
May 2018
Delivering farming solutions with satellite-powered data analytics
... a solid foundation with decades of datasets to be exploited for value creation in applications right here on Earth. The small satellite revolution has further extended the scope of applications with companies today having constellations that can...
