October 2020
Open Source Space
... code and documentation made freely available. In recent years, the open source movement has expanded beyond software development to other technology areas, including the development of microsatellites. In considering how open source and space can...
February 2016
Data Systems to Support Early Warning of Spaceborne Emergency Situations
...analysis system for combined monitoring of near-Earth space objects and early warning notification is a unified system of software tools developed on the basis of scientific methodology and systems for warning and managing emergency situations. Their...
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 ...
