23 August 2019
Energetic eruption helps astronomers peer deep within Jupiter's atmosphere
Beneath the swirling skies of Jupiter, a storm is brewing. In fact there is always a storm brewing on the Solar System’s biggest planet; one that while spectacular to see, could strip the spacesuit from your skin with its toxic composition. How do ...
January 2019
Smallsat revolution and AI kick-start nascent EO big data market
... is likely, in our view, to acquire talent and to build a scalable subscription-based business model. Copernicus Sentinel-1 C-Band SAR data being used to map floods resulting from Hurricane Florence in Jacksonville, Florida, USA, on 15 September 2018...
April 2019
LISA Pathfinder – paving the way for future studies of the gravitational universe
... from his theory of general relativity (1915). Ground-based detectors can only measure the high frequency band of gravitational waves. A first direct detection on ground took place in September 2015, leading to the award of the Nobel...
01 June 2021
Space junk collision highlights need for intervention
... a faulty power switchbox. This latest collision highlights the growing threat posed by orbital debris as the narrow band of space around Earth becomes increasingly crowded with satellites, spent rocket parts and other wayward objects...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
... deep space ground stations, which currently support different RF bands at 2GHz (S-band), 8GHz (X-band) and 32GHz (Ka-band). Euclid requires reception capability in the 26GHz band (K-band). Therefore, the Cebreros and Malargüe Deep Space stations...
April 2018
Future Cubesat swarms pose significant communications challenges
... spacecraft collects space weather data cross-linked to each other via UHF band at a rate of 9.6 kbit/s. After the cross-link, a ...sensing missions. As the frequency increases from UHF to Ka-band, the potential for higher data rates also increases and ...
