29 September 2022
UK gives space junk clearance missions priority funding
... of a mission to remove two derelict satellites from LEO. The Clearing the LEO Environment with Active Removal (CLEAR) mission, which will... two derelict UK objects from a congested region of LEO above 700 km altitude. Both objects have been inactive...
July 2014
Beware the situation: how JSpOC tracks space debris
... of the number of such objects in low-Earth orbit (LEO) range between 300,000 and 560,000. We fully expect...are under 5km miss distance at GEO or less than 1km miss distance in LEO, and we do this within 72 hours of the time of closest approach...
October 2015
Down to Earth: how to deorbit satellites and save money
... the Earth’s atmosphere. Each year this €2.3 billion-worth LEO satellite keeps orbiting uncontrolled, it increases the risk of collision... operators active on French territory to decommission all LEO satellites orbiting within 2000km at the end of ...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
...; interplanetary spaceflight, however, poses unique issues in respect of identifying and codifying criminality. Unlike the mass access to LEO eagerly anticipated by space tourism companies, the crew of any such flight will be relatively small for the...
November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
... by the American government. Convinced that low Earth orbit (LEO) utilisation would be taken over by the private sector and...coming years as launch costs go down. And if travelling to LEO eventually becomes equivalent to the cost of a long haul flight...
April 2018
Developing Mars
...cargo tanker flights to low Earth orbit (LEO), along with all associated costs. On the Omaha Trail propellant ... water from Deimos volatiles. This water is delivered by cargo ship to LEO for transfer. The water shields crews en route to Mars and is dumped...
