by Germán Santamaría | Oct 4, 2022 | News, Newspace, Sin categoría
The week from 4 to 10 October is World Space Week, an event organized by the United Nations every year to celebrate the contributions that space science and technology make to the advancement of humanity around the world, and this year the chosen theme is “Space and...
by Germán Santamaría | Sep 13, 2022 | News, Newspace, Sin categoría
The Artemis Programme is the most important space programme today in technical, financial and human terms. Its goal is to take astronauts to the Moon again (including the first woman and person of colour) and it is seen as the gateway to the exploration of Mars. Over...
by Germán Santamaría | Jul 16, 2022 | Sin categoría
Sunspots are among the many curious and mysterious aspects of the Sun. They are areas that concentrate large amounts of energy and the site of solar storms whose effects reach our planet and can have potentially harmful effects. What are sunspots? A sunspot is an area...
by Germán Santamaría | Jun 20, 2022 | Sin categoría
We love challenges at Solar MEMS, and this time we decided to tackle the proposal by Soltec, which we were able to win thanks to the work of our team. The challenge was to propose the development of a believable low cost irradiance sensor that could be integrated into...
by Germán Santamaría | May 27, 2022 | Sin categoría
Space sensors are our speciality and our vocation. We have great experience in working with different types, such as solar sensors, star trackers and horizon sensors. In this article we will be looking at the last of these, the horizon sensor, which can determine with...
by Germán Santamaría | May 26, 2022 | Sin categoría
At Solar MEMS we are committed to the sustainability of the space environment and the importance of keeping space debris in LEO to a minimum. In this article we want to explain the plans to deorbit the International Space Station, the largest man-made space object...
