Airbus’ OneSat satellite achieves final design review
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Airbus’ fully reconfigurable OneSat satellite product line has achieved a final design review with customers and space agencies.
The OneSat development programme is supported by the European Space Agency (ESA), the French Space Agency (CNES), and the UK Space Agency (UKSA).
Developed as part of ESA’s programme of Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES), the software-defined OneSat satellites are designed to operate in geostationary orbit about 36,000km above Earth.
The OneSat product line features disruptive technologies, the latest digital processing, and active antennas.
Cleaning up cosmic litter
On March 22, Astroscale launched its End-of-Life Services by Astroscale (ELSA-d) demonstration craft on a Soyuz rocket that took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
It is the first commercial mission to prove the core technologies necessary for space debris, Okada said.
How does the clean up work?
ELSA-d is made of two satellites that have been stacked atop each other, a 175-kilogram (385-pound) servicer satellite and a client satellite that weighs 17 kilograms.
The servicer vehicle is equipped with proximity rendezvous technologies and a magnetic docking mechanism and is designed to remove defunct satellites and other large pieces of debris from orbit.