March 2017
Rosetta – outstanding climax to pioneering mission
...mission, defining operations concepts, designing and testing software tools and procedures, hiring and training the ... on our spacecraft, and integrated it into the orbit determination software. However, the model could only be built up and refined...
April 2021
Satellites in the cloud: data from orbit
... Azure Space. The industry is now witness to a transition both in space and on ground towards virtualized ground stations, software defined networks and data intensive applications, where cloud infrastructure and services are becoming key enablers...
21 April 2017
Draper readies Dream Chaser for International Space Station
... aboard Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft. The capabilities include mission automation and guidance, navigation and control (GN&C) software, as well as the human-rated fault-tolerant flight computer. Draper used these same capabilities during the...
August 2016
Smallsat launch strategy
...technologies are constantly being incorporated in the hardware and software, and the satellite parts are primarily sourced from...design ‘tech demo’ satellites that incorporate new hardware or software, and then launch it into space for testing under ...
November 2016
Rosetta - an eventful cruise phase
... to us that it was better to abandon our plans just to contact the spacecraft on a monthly basis. We therefore implemented additional software checks onboard and decided that throughout the cruise we would contact the spacecraft at least once a week...
June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
... engineers search for intelligent extraterrestrial communications in the universe through building, making and tuning, hardware and software with which they might make contact, they engage in knowledge production that is essentially under the purview...
