14 October 2019
First dedicated commercial smallsat mission to Mars unveiled
... could survive the long and harsh journey to another planet when its twin communications-relay CubeSats – MarCO-A and MarCO-B – successfully relayed data to Earth from Insight as it landed on the Martian surface. However, these diminutive duo...
08 May 2019
Tests start on first design of 'wafer scale' spacecraft
... of the resounding successes of NASA’s recent InSight mission was the two shoe-boxed sized craft called MarCO that accompanied the probe on its journey to Mars. ESA will also soon be following in these footsteps as the...
21 December 2020
Innovative design could see CubeSats "steam-powered"
Miniaturised satellites made up of multiples of 10 x 10 x 10 centimetre cubic units have made a huge impact on space research since their introduction in 1999. Better known as CubeSats, these small satellites are often constructed from commercial ...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
... Utrecht. In September 2017 he will join the astrophysics group at the University of Surrey. Dr Orsola De Marco holds a professorship at Macquarie University, in Sydney, Australia, where she works on observations and simulations of interacting...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
... Office in the Technology, Engineering and Quality Directorate and the Proba-3 Project Manager for ESA. Victor Marco was an associate professor in the Aerospace Engineering Department, Polytechnic University of Madrid. He worked for SENER from 2003...
April 2019
On-board propulsion set to drive the smallsat revolution
... have sufficient capability to perform interplanetary exploration, such as with NASA’s recent launch of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) flyby mission to Mars. And with the burgeoning interest in asteroid mining, a disruption in the mining sector may...
