InSpace Travel BlogbyAndris Slavinskis·Jul 14, 2022Short documentary «ESTCube saved my life»Short documentary «ESTCube saved my life» by Tero H. Savolainen about the ESTCube-2 project’s early days
InSpace Travel BlogbyAndris Slavinskis·Jun 29, 2022ESTCube-2: Flight model assembly, integration and testESTCube-2 is being prepared for launch to demonstrate the plasma brake for deorbiting in low Earth orbit and deep-space technologies.
InSpace Travel BlogbyAndris Slavinskis·Jun 8, 2022The E-sail tale: a historical view and future perspectiveThe electric solar wind sail is a novel propulsion concept invented in 2004. It might be demonstrated in orbit in either 2022 or 2023.
InSpace Travel BlogbyAndris Slavinskis·May 26, 2022Plasma brake for deorbiting in low Earth orbitThe plasma brake is a technology concept and experiment, whose aim is to bring satellites closer to Earth’s atmosphere with no need for…A response icon1
InSpace Travel BlogbyAndris Slavinskis·Aug 4, 2021ESTCube-2: a mission to tackle the space debris problemThis is the first in a series of articles about ESTCube-2. Here we will introduce the main mission, to demonstrate deorbiting with plasma…
