August 2018
Earth observation game-changer
Optical satellite imaging has provided nations and organisations with increasingly accurate and valuable Earth observation data in recent years - but its one downside is the need for targets to be cloud-free. In contrast synthetic aperture radar (...
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
... group, a Japan-based cross-university team, is hard at work developing new technology they hope will become a game changer for space debris remediation: the aeroshell. An aeroshell is a flexible, low-mass structure that can be deployed...
April 2020
Spaceport Cornwall – from protests to sustainability
... and running the riskof delays. The British government recognised that small, innovative developers with potentially game-changing technologies were being priced out of the market and identified an opportunity which it is supporting with funding...
January 2023
Clearing space junk from orbit
... of digital technologies has revolutionised our daily life as instant messaging, social media, movie streaming and online gaming are enjoyed by a growing part of the world’s population. It is not only the breadth of digital services that is expanding...
May 2024
The challenges of satellite communications on the move
... links were not available, was television entertainment services. Such relay services enabled coverage of the Olympic Games in Tokyo to be beamed back to the United States for terrestrial broadcast in October 1964. Scaling of satellite mass and...
29 June 2015
SpaceX Falcon 9 failure: will launch markets and manned spaceflight be affected?
... 9 rocket broke apart over the Atlantic. Yet we were also reminded that risk is the name of the game in space. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was carrying an unmanned Dragon cargo vehicle when it disintegrated shortlt after...
