May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
...manage the movement and monitoring of people and the tracking of infected patients. Satellite communications enabled doctors to connect with patients virtually and assisted in the drone delivery of emergency medical supplies. And as the tragic events...
October 2023
The impact of weather on Ka-band frequencies
... are more compact, often easier to install and maintain, and more cost effective. This opens up satellite connectivity to new markets and applications. Historically, higher frequencies have also tended to be less congested than lower frequency...
October 2024
The Human Spaceship - Off Balance
... creative thinking in terms of human space travel and settlement plans. The project also examines the multisensory connections with related brain activities and physical changes including balance, spatial orientation, and cognitive functions. With...
31 October 2016
Swarm constellation helps figure out why satellites lose their GPS signal
...scientists now know why satellites sometimes lose their GPS connection - thunderstorms. These ‘thunderstorms’ appear in the ... a direct link between these storms and the loss of connection to GPS,” said Claudia Stolle from the GFZ research centre...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
... in something of a small satellite revolution that never was. The SMEX-Lite satellite bus, which is responsible for connecting various components and computers, was designed to be ‘NASA’s Next Generation Small Explorer’ framework for building small...
January 2021
Safeguarding space - lessons from decommissioning in the energy industry
... of the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC), a global non-profit that supports students and young professionals to connect to the wider space industry. Harriet has a master’s in planetary science at the California Institute of Technology and...
