April 2018
Transforming the launch market for small spacecraft
...’s schedule and orbit requirements, often resulting in sacrifices on both mission parameters, the reward being a relatively cheap launch price. As the small satellite industry grows, there may be more customers willing to pay a premium over rideshare...
23 September 2016
ESA launch CleanSat initiative to clean up space debris
... adding hundreds if not thousands more satellites to the seemingly already saturated skies, the European Space Agency is launching a Clean Space initiative, tasked with safeguarding terrestrial and space environments from a surge in orbital debris...
26 January 2018
NASA launches GOLD to study Earth-space boundary
Although it had a bumpy start to its assignment, yesterday with the help of a European Ariane 5 rocket, NASA launched a satellite that is hosting its Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD mission. GOLD is set to ...
16 September 2019
First European satellite with AI set for launch
... first satellite to demonstrate the use of artificial intelligence in orbit and we are very much looking forward to it being launched in the coming months.” In addition to its remote sensing objectives, the FSSCat mission will demonstrate for the...
01 March 2021
Turkey to build a rocket launch site in Somalia to support Moon 2023 landing
.... Details of the country’s national space programme, which also involves building a spaceport in Somalia to facilitate launches, were unveiled by the President at the Bestepe National Congress and Culture Centre in February. Somalia is a longstanding...
22 October 2021
Nanoracks announces plans to launch its orbital space station, Starlab, in 2027
... be developed and built by Lockheed Martin who will also operate the system under Nanoracks’ leadership after launch. Voyager Space, the majority stakeholder in Nanoracks, will oversee financing and capital investment. “We have invested significantly...
