July 2014
Achilles’ heel
... presents one of the main threats to prosperity in space. The TT&C links are heavily encrypted, at multiple layers of the network, as they possess the link to manipulate the satellites’ core management functions such as propellant, solar arrays and...
23 February 2022
Pivotal role for ground segment in new era of connectivity
...blend in seamlessly with every other type of access technology, creating full interoperability within end-to-end converged networks like 5G, this new era of connectivity can only be realised through innovation on the ground. This spirit of revolution...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... first picked up by NASA’s Canberra Deep Space Network. The scientists and engineers were quick to exchange congratulatory...that nearly 250 NASA staffers at the three deep-space networks had been earmarked specially to monitor MOM’s Mars orbit ...
March 2015
Satellite technology in newsgathering and disaster coverage
...3G/4G cellular and terrestrial internet made it realistic for news organizations to move high-quality video over public networks. The use of satellite uplinks began shrinking. Satellite providers began to realize that in order to compete in the world...
March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
... and industry. Within ARTES, ESA has started the development of 2 micro-satellites supporting the SAT-AIS network of satellites in cooperation with LUXSPACE and exact Earth Europe. In case of emergency… It is important to understand that satcoms also...
April 2017
Mega-challenges for mega-constellations
... constellations in low Earth orbit (LEO) by 2018-2020. The proposed concepts foresee spanning a global, leak-proof network of inter-linked small satellites, accessible at any time from a set of deployed ground terminals. It is expected that this...
