31 July 2019
GLEE mission aims to send 500 LunaSats to the Moon
... $200 each. The devices will work as a fully-capable satellite, complete with several environmental sensors, a small solar panel and a radio for communicating with Earth and other LunaSats. Their objective is to collect valuable data on conditions...
05 August 2019
Weaponised satellites to be part of new space force says France
... aggressors. The next round of satellite development will then involve the attachment of devices capable of destroying solar panels, and/or blinding and destroying hostile satellites in the event of an unwarranted attack. "Having a reinforced space...
08 May 2020
China's prototype spacecraft lands successfully on Earth
... and had completed a number of experiments, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said, including unfolding its solar panels, deploying its relay antenna and establishing a relay communication link, as well as conducting autonomous orbit control...
13 July 2020
UAE's mission to Mars scheduled for launch tomorrow
... protects the craft (the payload fairing) atop of a Mitsubishi H-IIA booster, will be powered by energy collected from solar panels which provide 600 Watts of power at Mars – the spacecraft requirement is 477 W. Despite a gloomy weather forecast...
22 March 2021
The first look at Ingenuity on Mars
... had at least have survived launch. But, once deployed on Mars' surface, it will be down to the helicopter's own solar panel, which is mounted atop its rotor system, to charge the batteries. Like its name suggests Ingenuity is equipped...
24 May 2021
A CubeSat that produces visible light on the ground to be launched in NASA initiative
... spacecraft will include a UHF antenna led by the CETYS Universidad team, in Baja California, Mexico, xenon flashtubes, solar panels, an onboard computer, transceiver and a deployable gravity gradient boom that orients the light toward Earth. The...
