25 November 2021
European scientists bounced first ever LoRa message off the Moon
...Moon. This could become relevant for future lunar communications. The team, some of them licensed radio amateurs... captured. This dataset is going to become a classic for radio communications and signal processing students. A big thumbs up to the team ...
March 2015
Ka-band satellite communication and lowering the price of VSATs
... idle, above the heads of potential customers During this period, satellite television began evolving as fast as satellite communications. Even when a satellite receiver cost a few hundred dollars, and the antenna was 1-1.5 metres in diameter, they...
June 2015
Promoting growth at geostationary orbit with a one-stop-shop
...model went down significantly to manageable proportions. Such critical challenges can be a problem with the purist science community because that idea of compromise can be alien to them. The precision to which they need to take a measurement in order...
June 2015
Watching over alpine explorers
... not exchanged directly but always via the server in the regional centre, which contains communication software and a database. The communication software reacts to incoming messages from the mobile clients and stores the information in its...
March 2016
Space debris conundrum for international law makers
...the Outer Space Treaty presents an opportunity for the global community to reflect not only on what has been achieved in...carry a degree of uncertainty, the scientific and technical community agrees that concerted action is needed on multiple fronts to...
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
... there are only limited, inconsistent descriptions of what space objects and events are. Additionally, the space community lacks a rigorous understanding of the space environment itself - let alone a holistic, cohesive cause-effect paradigm for...
