Space and Satellite Systems

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DeltaV’s Hybrid Bet: The 2017 Start-Up Supplying Turkey’s Lunar Propulsion

DeltaV’s Hybrid Bet: The 2017 Start-Up Supplying Turkey’s Lunar Propulsion

Hybrid rocket propulsion — solid fuel, liquid oxidiser — has spent most of its history as the technology that should have worked. It throttles, it...

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GOKTURK-1 vs Airbus Pleiades: Full Technical Comparison of Two Earth-Observation Workhorses

GOKTURK-1 vs Airbus Pleiades: Full Technical Comparison of Two Earth-Observation Workhorses

Turkiye's GOKTURK-1 and Airbus's Pleiades constellation both deliver sub-metre optical reconnaissance, but they answer very different questions. One is a single sovereign military eye built...

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Skynet 6A: Britain’s £500 Million Bet on Military Space Sovereignty

Skynet 6A: Britain’s £500 Million Bet on Military Space Sovereignty

On February 16, 2021, the UK Ministry of Defence and Airbus signed a £500 million contract for the Skynet 6A military communications satellite — the...