January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
...to install a payload on the exterior of a satellite. Such payloads could fulfil a wide variety of missions: Earth imaging, communications, space weather monitoring, and more. But they cannot make use of the host satellite’s systems; they must provide...
March 2019
Urgent action needed to avert space debris threat
...especially in the way we aggregate multiple sets of data. Transparent data is more actionable, whether it concerns space weather, radio frequency (RF) interference or collisions. It’s a common occurrence for operators to receive data or warnings that...
April 2024
Unlocking the NewSpace economy through space-based solar power
... to the construction site? Sensors could be mounted on the OTVs to collect information about, for example, debris, radiation, space weather and the status of satellites along the path - all with unprecedented position and frequency. Secondly, simply...
December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
... were thermal control, hydrogen production and storage, photovoltaics, energy storage, life support systems, robotics and space weather effects. Once a list of prospective technologies was formulated, each area was subsequently analysed against a set...
March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
... - supporting sustainable development on Earth Space debris - space operations and tools to support collaborative space situational awareness Space weather - regulatory regimes and guidance for actors in the space arena. At present the Working Group...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... way all of the very real threats that come to our planet from space - orbital space debris, issues related to changes to the geomagnetosphere, threats from space weather (i.e. CMEs, solar radiation flares, and depletion of the ozone layer), all...
