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Ellen Stofan
Smithsonian
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Dec 16, 2015
Spacecraft propulsion systems for communications satellites serve a unique purpose—to produce carefully measured pulses that help spacecraft achieve their final trajectory and orbital positions, and to maintain those positions once reached.
Dec 16, 2015
Robotic spacecraft traveled throughout the Solar System in 2015 and gave planetary scientists different perspectives on objects ranging from microscopic dust particles at its outer reaches, to the gas giant Jupiter, to the hot clouds of Venus.
Dec 16, 2015
Today, small satellites must hitch a ride into orbit, but an array of small-payload vehicles are under development that promise low-cost, quick-response launches of spacecraft as slight as cubesat size.
Dec 16, 2015
France’s defense ministry will begin work on three new major space-system developments in the coming year, including an international collaboration with Germany in the area of remote sensing and an operational follow-on to the Elisa signals-intelligence demo.
Dec 16, 2015
2015 could well turn up in the history books as the year humankind finally realized it could be a spacefairing species, and started reaping the benefits.
Dec 15, 2015
Space was an exciting frontier in 2015, with New Horizons’ Pluto flyby and the confirmation of water on Mars’s surface dominating the news. But commercial competition in space was also an important trend.
Dec 14, 2015
UP Aerospace takes its experience building and operating low-cost suborbital sounding rockets and applies it to a dedicated launch vehicle for tiny cubesats.
Dec 11, 2015
Agreement has been reached at the World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva on the allocation of radiofrequency spectrum for global flight tracking in civil aviation.