...-like expansion on orbit. For example, large communication antennas could provide higher throughput, more precise beam steering, and other advantages to communications satellites. These could be robotically assembled in a tile-like fashion. Even...
... contributor on the optical design and the control system for the Kansas City team in NASA’s Power Beaming challenge. He is a founding member and director of ISEC, an organisation furthering Space Elevator related research, including collaboration...
... optical links to gather low-orbiting satellites’ information at far higher data rates than traditional radio frequency beams. Safety in numbers The advent of larger and larger LEO constellations using smaller spacecraft has ushered in a new...
... Earth’s surface, is the case more often than not). Radix then uses a combination of RF and laser communication to beam that data to the ground. Lasers carry significantly more data than RF, comparable to the difference between fibre...
... nearest crater’s slope. When the cave is big enough, they will move a Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) inside t in order to protect it for the long term. People will start to live inside the lunar cave...
... propulsion technology, powered by electromagnetically accelerating xenon ions, which form the characteristic blue glow of the ion beam that propels the spacecraft. The NEXT-C engine will be about three times as powerful as the similar ion...