24 September 2019
New global Space Safety Coalition established
... constellation size. These best practices directly address, and in a complementary manner even surpass, existing guidance and standards published by groups such as the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), the U.N. Committee on the...
December 2014
From the green economy to green space
...Earth space pollution appeared and continues to grow.4,5,6 Eco-standards for automobile fuel have been in place for a ...for example, changes in perception or the use of stricter green standards. The model can be applied to assess the eco-credentials of...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... international nature of the resulting marketplace supporting CubeSats. It’s hard to realise that prior to the emergence of the CubeSat standard, Surrey Space, Ltd. and its class of satellites down to about 100 kg, were considered the smallest useful...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
...next level of abstraction. Almost nobody builds their own satellite standard anymore – it doesn’t make sense to re-invent the... more than 200 CubeSats from the International Space Station. The second standard, PocketQube, is a 5 cm cube with a mass of ...
June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
... the need to ensure hardened protection against solar and cosmic radiation. ESA’s CryoSat-2 satellite uses an Agency-standard ERC32 computer. Writing code that runs on this microprocessor today is equivalent to programming for a mass-market PC circa...
May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
...-bound systems should be the first step, followed by the design and deployment of astronomical devices built to specific standards. These design regulations could be a pathfinder for the more sophisticated systems that follow - just as they are...
