... capabilities over time. Weather is one area increasingly explored by private industry with new space efforts in imagery, GPS Radio Occultation and hyperspectral sensing. ASRA provides authority and funding for DoD to start a pilot programme...
... this first military-led step before arriving at the civil Earth observation satellites, along with the GPS satellites and the telecom satellites, all of which have revolutionised daily life on Earth. With programmes like...
...And they provide a broad spectrum of capabilities, such as multispectral and hyperspectral imagery, weather data collection, GPS radio occultation and video. With the boom in smallsats comes an increasing demand for launch opportunities. The ...
... are operating in GEO. Most of the rest are either in LEO or in the medium Earth orbits (MEOs) used by GPS and other global navigation satellite constellations. Spatial density of orbital debris vs. altitude in Low Earth orbits. Orbital...
... weight, making them easier to manufacture and cheaper to launch. They will include state-of-the-art onboard GPS sensors and on-board propulsion systems to help avoid orbital debris and for end of life disposal. The...
... and spectrometers, from the near-IR to far-IR; microwave radiometers; sub-mm-wave spectrometers; short wavelength radars; GPS radio occultation; mass spectrometers; gamma ray and X-ray spectrometers; and optical communication lasers that can be ...