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The Purpose Of Reaction Control Systems On Spacecraft Learn more and read the full, in-depth article by following the link below: https://lnkd.in/d_4U3Y5G

2023 saw a significant increase in smallsat deployments, with new records set in spacecraft upmass. Learn more in the 2023 Smallsats Report: https://lnkd.in/gVagSUrH #Smallsats #BryceTech #SpaceData

🌑 Did you know that a lunar night is 14 Earth days long and VERY cold? Did you know that ACT has designed three out-of-this-world technologies to help spacecraft survive those conditions? Check out this video to learn more! https://hubs.ly/Q02dGvMB0

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Would you like to learn more about the boulders of #asteroid Dimorphos in the aftermath of the #DART spacecraft impact? Check out the newest updates on our blog: https://lnkd.in/e5E8E2PF

Structural reliability evaluation is critical for mission planning of reusable spacecraft. A dynamic reliability prognosis method based on digital twin framework is proposed for mission planning in this work. https://lnkd.in/gb4xuYkp

Craft a story about an astronaut who is stranded in space due to a malfunction in his spacecraft. Click the link to explore this writing prompt further → https://lnkd.in/dTtH3x3N #WritingPrompt #WritingPrompts #DraftSparks

🌍 🛰 DSOC is the farthest-ever demonstration of optical communications - a way to communicate at high rates using near-infrared lasers. Cloud occurence has a major influence on optical link availability between ground stations and senders/receivers in space. Also, sub visible clouds, aerosols and water vapor impact the transmissivity between optical ground stations and their counterpart in space, commonly LEO satellites. 🎉 NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory #MissiontoPsyche has recently achieved a milestone in Deep Space Optical Communications, sending test data successfully via the uplink and downlink near-infrared lasers between Psyche spacecraft and Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in California. 🌥 🌤 ☀ Given the variability of the cloud cover, scheduling optical link availability and selecting the right ground station from an OGS network remains a challenge. Reuniwatt's infrared sky camera Sky InSight™ is on board a number of research projects, aiming to assess the availability for optical links through the atmosphere. One of these projects is ANAtOLIA, an ESA-funded project aiming to characterize and predict critical atmospheric parameters for the purposes of the selection of the OGS sites and the evaluation of their availability. Another example is project CO-OP, a collaboration of 17 French SMEs and major groups with the goal to enable future high-speed bidirectional optical links for satellite telecommunications missions in geostationary orbit. 👀 Keep your eyes open, we will soon come up with more FSOC content #forecasting #satellitecommunications #opticalcommunications

The rendezvous operations phase of the Astroscale ADRAS-J mission today are underway. In this phase, the operations team based in Japan and the UK will use ADRAS-J’s propulsion system to start maneuvering towards the orbit of the client spacecraft. This initial rendezvous phase requires careful planning of several orbit raising maneuvers to ensure accurate, precise and safe approach to the client...https://lnkd.in/gPFR_Dyb

Update #2 on Peregrine Mission One:We continue to gather data and report our best assessment of what we see. The team believes that the likely cause of the unstable sun-pointing is a propulsion anomaly that, if proven true, threatens the ability of the spacecraft to soft land on the Moon. As the team fights to troubleshoot the issue, the spacecraft battery is reaching operationally low levels.