September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
...-two centimetre population in order to validate and improve debris modelling. One interesting programme is Astroscale’s IDEA OSG1 small satellite, which will use two Space Debris Monitors supplied by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA). It is due...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
...company, founded in 2016, wants to turn around customer orders to build and launch its small satellites in just six months, and provide Satellite as a Service. Spacety is deploying a unique Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) constellation with both C and...
January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
... during the decade. The first, ‘Atlantic Constellation’, is about fostering the development of a constellation of small satellites dedicated to investigating and monitoring the Atlantic Ocean, responding to climate-change challenges, increased...
14 October 2019
First dedicated commercial smallsat mission to Mars unveiled
... a dozen Polish universities to establish a new consortium with an aim to carry out the world’s first dedicated commercial small satellite mission to Mars. With a proposed launch date expected as early as 2022 for the first-of-its-kind CubeSat...
10 January 2023
Virgin Orbit fails to deliver on first launch from UK
... The two-stage, expendable launch vehicle is designed to place small satellites of up to 500 kg (1,100 lb) into a wide ...low-cost route to orbit as the demand for sending small satellites into low Earth orbit grows exponentially. Chris Larmour, CEO...
30 May 2023
Virgin Orbit cuts its losses and ceases operations
... operational launches, which all lifted off from California, were all successful and had deployed a total of 33 small satellites. But what turned out to be the company's final mission still notched up a number of space firsts, including the...
