06 November 2019
UK Space Agency confirms £7.35 million funding to support small satellite launch from Cornwall
... the site. Science Minister, Chris Skidmore said: "We want the UK to be the first country in Europe to give its small satellite manufacturers a clear route from the factory to the spaceport. That’s why it’s so important that we are developing new...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
... system that underpins Android. The processor in many of those small satellites is nearly identical to the ones that power millions of iPhones... must increase the size of the lens. For a small satellite, that mean it must use as much volume as possible...
September 2016
Small launcher market survey
...multiplespacecraft manifests Several papers written on this subject have noted that the cost per launch for small satellites generally increases as the size of the LV decreases, utilising a metric called ‘specific cost’ measured in price per kilogram...
April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
... from the UK spaceport. Electron is currently launched from New Zealand. The UK has recognised the potential for small satellite launch and has ambitions to commence operations at a spaceport located within the UK by 2021. These ambitions require the...
April 2018
Future Cubesat swarms pose significant communications challenges
... swarm low-Earth orbit (LEO) mission with four main types of data link. Increasing demand for small satellite constellations requires efficient communication architectures in science missions such as gravity mapping, tracking forest fires, finding...
April 2021
Norway’s pioneering use of microsatellites
... (NOSA) and the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) took the initiative in 2006 to begin development of a small satellite. The satellite would collect Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals from ships that could thus be positioned...
