March 2015
Satellite technology in newsgathering and disaster coverage
... down. We also have a throughput problem. Historically, there is just not a lot of total bandwidth on a conventional geostationary communications satellite. There is more internet bandwidth serving many small neighbourhoods than exists on a typical...
March 2015
Ka-band satellite communication and lowering the price of VSATs
... since 6 April 1965 and the launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite. In that time three technological revolutions in satellite communication have occurred right before my eyes. All three were connected with mastering new...
March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
... the mainstay of the space industry: more than half of the space business involves building and launching communication satellites. Satcoms services and applications are the largest space sector and are a major driver of space technology...
March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
...18,600 miles into space, just shy of the 22,236 miles at which US satellites in geosynchronous orbit - including essential missile warning and communications satellites - are located. The US has built an enormously expensive and delicate architecture...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
.... Spacepower is ubiquitous, or in the case of Earth observation near ubiquity, because communications, satellite navigation and environmental monitoring satellite systems provide coverage of the entire Earth’s surface. Finally, spacepower provides...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... of uncorrelated objects contains the high area-to-mass (HAMR) objects [15]. Space weathering and satellite aging A modern communications satellite is a complex system involving numerous subsystems that have finite lifetimes due to mechanical wearing...
