March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
... of data with a bilateral review of interfaces including CAD models, thermal models, ICDs (interface control document) and software drivers. The two companies have also exchanged development hardware to support R&D processes. Since the compact Gecko...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... of the space industry - CubeSat developers, university researchers, space law and finance professionals, quantum software designers, solutions architects, robotics experts and suborbital launch providers to name a few. The 70 or so participants...
March 2022
Smoothing the journey to space with the satellite-as-a-service model
...a 3U CubeSat mission from the European Space Agency, blazed a trail for commercial development with a similar in-space software development platform for third-party users. Exodus Orbitals is looking to build on the success of this mission by offering...
June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
... technology flying today actually is, and this is especially true in the area of mission operations. With mission-critical software, there are always strong barriers to flying something new and unproven in space. Chalk it up to a mix of risk aversion...
June 2015
The book of flight
... reading would be a big boost. At the most simplistic level of description, this is what Aviobook is all about. Aviobook is a software system that consists of two components: an app running on a tablet, either Windows or iOS. And the second component...
March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
...he allowed ESOC to participate more directly in the onboard software test campaign on the spacecraft engineering model. Through a number..., come together twice a week and use a software simulator go through all operations, scenarios and flight ...
