August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... joined together making them about the size of a standard briefcase and these diminutive spacecraft are currently cruising along ... stature of MarCO means that certain modifications to otherwise standard technology have been made, in order to give the...
November 2018
Monitoring illegal rainforest deforestation
... small mechanical envelope. Optical layout of the telescope. The proposed operational system based on the 16U CubeSat standard. All mirror substrates are manufactured on ZERODUR low CTE (low coefficient of thermal expansion) ceramics. A broadband...
March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
... the performance of the platform to the mission requirements and budget of the mission as generally used with CubeSat standards. The entry-level Gaia platform delivers all the core subsystems required to perform an EO mission in a 3U form factor...
June 2019
Space industry prime directive
... get a human spaceflight vehicle that would meet our safety standards. It took us about two years just to get to ...where we had agreed with the private sector on engineering and safety standards for a commercial cargo vehicle. I defy anybody to look at...
July 2019
Developing life support systems for human exploration missions beyond Earth
... than the heritage systems aboard the ISS. Standard packaging and interfaces reduce integration costs, enable ..., handling aids and connectors to inform selection of those standard interfaces to be delivered for seamless and efficient installation into...
September 2019
Extending the life of geostationary orbit satellites
... provide up to 15 years of life extension to commercial clients, and carries excess fuel margin beyond that. In addition to standard GEO life extension, the MEV is also capable of providing clients with additional services including close inspections...
