October 2024
Virtualisation of the satellite sector
.... Payloads are now often software-defined, highly flexible and configurable in orbit with steerable and splitable beams. This is coupled with the emergence of multi-orbit constellations - in low, medium and high-altitude orbits - featuring...
October 2024
The Human Spaceship - Off Balance
... mistaken distance perception, in dusk-like conditions with atmospheric dust. Artificial exterior lighting is likely to be spotlights or beams, which cause an array of light, creating a dazzle factor. This effect, causes blind-spots around the lights...
April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
..., these are the structures in a cell that give the cell its shape, kind of like the wooden beams in the walls that hold up a house. Experiments involving creatures like tadpoles, salamanders, geckos, newts, quail (eggs...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... for any purpose. Laser ranging faces governmental restrictions and also requires a surface that reflects the beam back down to Earth. Space-based sensors struggle with getting the data down in a timely manner. However...
10 March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
... the advanced geomobile L-band payload, allowing unprecedented flexible allocation of capacity through digital channellisation and beam-forming. It is a major step in payload operational capability. The Alphasat Digital Integrated Processor providing...
14 July 2015
Gazing on Pluto’s “heart” with NASA: from Clyde Tombaugh’s ashes to planetary terrain analysis on New Horizons’ historic flyby
... of romance (and an excuse for countless internet memes) was added to the proceedings when one of the images beamed back by New Horizons revealed Pluto to feature a “heart” – like an “I love you” to the long-dead man who...
