February 2021
Why flat panel antennas remain a challenge
... will end up with the right tools for their service. In today’s interconnected world consumers expect to be able to communicate wherever they may be. Testing Currently testing takes a huge amount of time and is fraught with a number of challenges...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
... growing volume and variety of infrastructure interconnections has changed the status of space weather among the space community, while the magnitude of the associated terrestrial hazards has further broadened the remit of space weather risk...
March 2021
Campuses, clusters and a leading force in UK space
... space sector. STFC and its campus joint partners are committed to investing in the growth of this space community or ‘cluster’ as it understands the tangible benefits that are reaped from co-locating businesses and organisations such as the...
April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
... live feed from the servicer as it slowly approaches the communications satellite, centimetre-by-centimetre, over a period of hours, as ...there had never been an opportunity to see a communications satellite decades after launch. Would the solar panels...
April 2021
Satellites in the cloud: data from orbit
... chain is underway, and major players continue to place their bets. The cloud computing via satellite market is communications-centric, in terms of both data traffic and service revenues. This is driven largely by demand in the maritime, aero...
April 2021
Making space part of the everyday European agenda
..., were beginning to emerge into the EO domain. I decided that if ESA wanted, as a publicly funded body, to be relevant to the community at large we had first of all to understand not only what’s going on but also adapt and work alongside...
