09 January 2019
New self-driving rovers being tested for Mars
... (ESA), over a month long period in December last year. The tests are part of the Space Robotics Strategic Research Cluster programme, funded by the European Commission via the Horizon2020 Programme. Catherine Mealing-Jones, ...
April 2024
Unlocking the NewSpace economy through space-based solar power
... of the way. A new ecostructure will be created (see diagram opposite). New business opportunities The robotic hardware required is unlike current space robotics and would be more akin to warehouse or logistics ‘pick and pack’ With such a large asset...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
...spacecraft systems engineering, conceptualisation of novel smallsat missions, attitude and orbital dynamics, estimation and control, and space robotics. Peter Boone has been a Senior Analyst with SSCL since the company’s inception. Previously, he had...
19 December 2016
JAXA signs an agreement for the development and creation of a lunar mining industry
... of Japan’s first concrete action for the development and creation of the space resource industry, with a focus on lunar resources. ispace.inc is a space robotics company based in Japan and is focused on developing miniaturised technology to discover...
November 2020
Walking on the Moon
... science. Spacebit was founded in 2014 to developed space robotics technology for lunar and planetary missions and has concentrated on micro-robotic concepts and tools for space data analytics using artificial intelligence (AI). As Spacebit’s founder...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... of Toronto. He worked on Canadarm, Canadarm 2 and the DARPA Orbital Express missions at MDA Space Missions. Jekan obtained his Ph.D. in space robotics at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) and did a postdoc at MIT...
