February 2021
Why flat panel antennas remain a challenge
... of the boresight changes. Testing is further complicated by the fact that these antennas often offer operations of multi-beam, multi-band and multi-orbit. In order to improve testing of FPAs, the industry needs to establish reliable and...
April 2021
Norway’s pioneering use of microsatellites
... of vessel position and identity. By means of a four-module 56 x 63 cm antenna capable of capturing radar signals through a 10 degree wide beam, the NRD will cover an ellipse shaped area approximately 1400 km long and 450 km wide. Thanks to phase...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
... Hull developed the commercial 3D printer using Stereolithography (SLA), a process which uses a computer-controlled moving laser beam, pre-programmed using computer aided manufacturing (CAM) and computer aided design (CAD). Conditions which must...
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...
