Already, four PocketQubes are scheduled for launch in November to a 700km solar synchronous orbit, including $50SAT, a small radio transceiver put together by some ham guys, and The WREN a very ...

Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing ...

An orbiting data centre, in a dawn-dusk sun-synchronous polar orbit that keeps it in continuous sunlight, could harness abundant solar energy. (With no atmosphere or clouds to scatter or block the ...

The primary goal of the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3 ... ACS3 will operate in a Sun-synchronous orbit, approximately 600 miles (965 kilometers) above the Earth.

They envision deploying a ring of 57 satellites in sun-synchronous orbit, which would allow them to provide an additional 30 minutes of sunshine to a solar farm anywhere on Earth. Notably ...

It can deliver a single 300-kilogram satellite or multiple satellites with a combined weight of 300 kilograms into a 500-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit. It can also carry a 350-kilogram payload ...

The telescope has been strategically positioned in a sun-synchronous polar orbit to minimize interference ... and how it transitions into the solar wind. According to Craig DeForest, Principal ...