April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... University (ISU) suggested providing sustainable and affordable internet access for the Brazilian Amazon region using microsatellites. More recently, several companies have begun to experiment with their own ideas on how to introduce global internet...
April 2018
Transforming the launch market for small spacecraft
.... The highest earnings have been made by launching mini-satellites. Due to shorter production cycles nanosatellite (up to 10 kg) and microsatellite (10-100 kg) numbers for the forecast values in the figures (right) are going to increase while mini...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... and societal cataclysm that would have resulted from the destruction of half of our space potential of 5,000 microsatellites. It is true that we tend to forget what is not physically on Earth. If the domino effect had occurred beyond 600...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... launch market. After this failed joint venture, Brazil decided to replace the VLS programme with the Microsatellite Launch Vehicle (VLM) in partnership with DLR. The planned three-stage VLM-1 is intended to launch payloads of 150...
May 2021
Taking quantum into space
... which will test out an entangled photon source. QEYSSat in Canada will onboard both a WCP source on their microsatellite in collaboration with UK researchers and SMEs as well as an indigenous entangled source on the ground. Germany, early this year...
22 April 2016
Arianespace's Soyuz Launch Scheduled for Later Today
...offshore in coastal regions. Flight VS14's final step will be the deployment of Microscope (the French acronym for: MICROSatellite à trainée Compensée pour l'Observation du Principe d'Equivalence), which was built by the CNES French space agency with...
