April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
... day and night and that its intensity may not only impede radio astronomical observations in the bands affected, but may even damage the detectors which are designed to receive extremely faint natural sources...
April 2020
Spaceport Cornwall – from protests to sustainability
... environmental group Extinction Rebellion at the Cornwall Council meeting. Sustainable goals The word ‘sustainability’ is everywhere and is banded about in all industries and the media. But how can a Spaceport even consider this, and what...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
...being negatively impacted by COVID-19. That said, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officials recently confirmed that the C-Band spectrum auction for 5G communication networks remains on track. A successful auction would inject much needed cash...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... promising avenue. Another method is to see if large patches of a planet collect light in the most energetically useful frequency bands – as is the case with Earth. Either of these would indicate not only that life is present, but that...
January 2021
What it takes to be a space entrepreneur
... school and business school was working at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). My job was revoking citizens band (CB) radio licenses, but I was in heaven because I was at the FCC. There were no cellular phones, so no way to communicate...
February 2021
Why flat panel antennas remain a challenge
... changes. Testing is further complicated by the fact that these antennas often offer operations of multi-beam, multi-band and multi-orbit. In order to improve testing of FPAs, the industry needs to establish reliable and repeatable measurement...
