December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... candidate EVA activities for important aspects such as worksite stabilisation and sampling. Recent testing included the demonstration of two-handed tasks and pneumatic chiselling. Vital stepping stone ARM sampling and containment operations would...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
... and successful exit strategies still need to be proven. Although this last critical aspect has recently been demonstrated by SkyBox Imaging, the creation of new markets is still not obvious. Resolution: The level of details of an image needs...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
...capability to find and capture debris. The demonstrations include search, inspection, rendezvous and both ... European Commission) fully funded the RemoveDebris mission, a demonstration of ADR capture technologies consisting of a consortium of European...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
...to adjust its speed and path - is believed to be the most appropriate. Kinetic impactor technology is the approach being demonstrated by DART. When the DART spacecraft reaches Didymos B, it will be travelling at roughly 22,000 kilometres per hour and...
September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
... useful life can be extended by refuelling. SC2 refuelling demonstrator will extend the working life of SC1 and take advantage... when docked with SC1. The Space Bench will be a demonstrator for in-orbit assembly and be the core of an incrementally ...
March 2022
Smoothing the journey to space with the satellite-as-a-service model
... success of this mission by offering an opportunity to participate to a much wider user base. The first mission will aim to demonstrate its commercial viability. Originally, it was envisaged that early users would come from hobbyist communities and...
