February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... that some sort of cosmic protective engineering might be possible. A deployable magnetic system at the L-1 Lagrangian point coupled with a solar power satellite system might be able to provide a type of shielding that could also transmit solar...
March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
... anticipate and understand threats. Airman Ashley Risk (foreground) and Airman 1st Class Jasper Platt oversee a satellite system procedure at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado. They are space ground link operators with the 4th...
August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
... while at the same time supporting the advancement of fundamental technologies for satellite systems. Poland has the potential to greatly increase the practical use of such systems in the public sector - the main barrier at the inception of POLSA was...
September 2016
Small launcher market survey
... trend of Moore’s Law driving miniaturisation of hardware has created a technological basis that has enabled smaller satellite systems to accomplish useful and operational capabilities. Furthermore, the global economic downturn that began in 2008 has...
April 2018
Future Cubesat swarms pose significant communications challenges
... R. Radhakrishnan, W. W. Edmonson, F. Afghah, R. M. Rodriguez-Osorio, F. Pinto and S. C. Burleigh. Survey of Inter-Satellite Communication for Small Satellite Systems: Physical Layer to Network Layer View; IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol...
February 2019
European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection
...–2040 timeframe EUMETSAT and NOAA signed an agreement in 1998 to collaborate on the IJPS, comprising two polar-orbiting satellite systems and their respective ground segments, and forming one key component of the global observing...
