20 September 2019
Russia and China to cooperate on future Moon missions
... Space Administration were on hand to sign the cooperation documents in Russia on Tuesday. Russia’s Luna-26 orbiter spacecraft is a planned lunar polar orbiter that would also function as a telecomm relay between Earth and Russian land assets. It has...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
...resolution satellites such as the GOES geostationary Earth observation satellites and polar-orbiting satellites such as Landsat and SPOT. Data from polar-orbiting satellites with higher spatial resolution, such as WorldView and QuickBird, is combined...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
...) in partnership with DLR. The planned three-stage VLM-1 is intended to launch payloads of 150 kg into equatorial and polar orbits from 250-700 km altitude, but this programme has suffered from budget limitations and technological restrictions...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
... years away from launch; and that it would fly in polar orbit so as to maximise Earth observations (amateur space watchers in ...did progress was Russian scientific participation on the Chinese orbital station. Through the auspices of the United Nations...
September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
... an operator were to launch a spacecraft with a nominal one square metre cross-sectional area body into an 800 km polar orbit, what would the likelihood be of the spacecraft becoming killed or maimed (permanent loss of capacity and/or mission design...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... will be jettisoned and chemical propulsion of the MPO will be used to inject both spacecraft into their dedicated polar orbits. The Japanese MMO will be released first, after which an additional thrust phase will insert the European...
