July 2014
View from Inmarsat: the search for MH370 and using satellites for safety
... are now fitted with FANS-capable avionics. This is clearly a significant increase, though more needs to be done to exploit further the potential of FANS. The industry has been looking for a ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... places and their resources. Earlier in modern human history there were new continents to be found, occupied and exploited. In the 20th century these destinations began to spread beyond the Earth with the Apollo missions to the...
December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
... and end-user interviews, was performed to identify the most promising energy sub-sectors and space exploitation possibilities. Already-available or planned EO products and missions (such as those within the ongoing Copernicus programme and...
March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
... will rapidly achieve critical mass by aggregating research efforts injected by its participants. SERC will not itself exploit its research outputs, but will license them to participants or other entities. SERC expects its technology to be applied...
March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
... of the interim steps in their business, receiving profit not from the sale of spacecraft, but from their exploitation. Where the real competition is Therefore, different models currently on the market vary in their proximity to the final...
March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
... high data-rate optical LEO-to-GEO links at rates up to 2.8 Gbit/s,and a Q/V band payload preparing the commercial exploitation of Q-V Band, in response to the market demand for high data rates and more bandwidth. Also hosted is an Advanced...
