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...
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...
