Israeli Startup Consults Insurers about Saving Europe's Stranded Galileo Satellites

摘要

An Israeli startup founded by a former Israel Aerospace Industries space division manager says it is ready to field a microsatel-lite able to attach to satellites in incorrect orbits and put them into operating position, or extend the lives of satellites running low on fuel. Tel Aviv-based Effective Space Solutions (EFS), founded only in 2012, went so far on Aug. 25 as to say its DeOrbiter could salvage the European Galileo positioning, navigation and timing satellites in a useless orbit after an Aug. 22 failure of a Europeanized Soyuz rocket's Fregat upper stage.