March 2015
Ka-band satellite communication and lowering the price of VSATs
... 2500 Mhz, 5 times that allocated for C-band and Ku-band. At the same time, satellite designers had ...because the demand is low. Who will be the consumers of HTS-supplied Ka-band broadband internet? In my opinion, there can be only one solution: the...
22 December 2016
Faint signals of water in the nearby Universe can now be detected by ALMA
... from an erupting volcano on Jupiter's moon, Io. The ‘band’ of radiation that the newly installed receivers can detect falls ... interfere with observations. The way in which ALMA's Band 5 receivers will measure water reduces some of these difficulties...
09 March 2018
Juno gives insight into Jupiter's epic winds
...its target in 2016, it was not known whether the colourful bands wrapped around Jupiter were just a pretty surface phenomenon, or ... winds on Earth, but ironically it is the flow of these bands that run from both east to west and west to east that...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
... deep space ground stations, which currently support different RF bands at 2GHz (S-band), 8GHz (X-band) and 32GHz (Ka-band). Euclid requires reception capability in the 26GHz band (K-band). Therefore, the Cebreros and Malargüe Deep Space stations...
April 2018
Future Cubesat swarms pose significant communications challenges
... spacecraft collects space weather data cross-linked to each other via UHF band at a rate of 9.6 kbit/s. After the cross-link, a ...sensing missions. As the frequency increases from UHF to Ka-band, the potential for higher data rates also increases and ...
October 2016
The dwarf galaxy problem
..., we are using data taken on the Canada France Hawaii Telescope in four colour bands. Having multiple bands is useful as some galaxies are brighter in some bands than others. For example, spiral galaxies have a lot of young, blue stars...
