March 2021
Eyes on the prize
... the Satellite Applications Catapult. Following a PhD in remote sensing, working on a NASA Mars satellite, Sam joined the VEGA Group. He held senior strategy roles in Finmeccanica, started and successfully exited a startup in the logistics sector and...
September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
... Applications Catapult. Following a PhD in remote sensing and involvement with a NASA Mars satellite, Sam joined the VEGA Group. He held senior strategy roles in Finmeccanica, started and successfully exited a start-up in the logistics sector and...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
... of the Soyuz rocket at the Kourou launch site in French Guiana appear to be numbered, as European customers move to Vega C, Ariane 6 and SpaceX. Similarly, there is project, but not programmatic cooperation, with China: a French experiment on Chang...
January 2023
Clearing space junk from orbit
... ClearSpace-1, aims at demonstrating the complete value chain of debris removal by capturing and deorbiting an ESA-owned object - a Vega Secondary Payload Adapter (VESPA) left in orbit in 2013 and now roaming at about 700 km altitude. The VESPA...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... and was indeed the first to launch commercial enterprise efforts in this direction. He founded Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas, Nevada, and managed to obtain a license for the Transhab inflatable structures technology developed by NASA. This new...
09 December 2015
France and Germany Confirm Plans to Launch Methane Monitoring Satellite
... orbit, and the ground infrastructure. The launch is expected to happen in 2020 on either a Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket or a Vega small-satellite launcher. France's contribution to the Merlin project will be 100 million euros and will be used...
