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...
22 February 2021
Not stars, but 25,000 supermassive black holes!
... frequency interference issues. For example the commercial FM radio band starts at about 90 MHz, so to take observations below... frequency, scientists using LOFAR have to use the array’s Low-band Antennas (LBAs). LBAs are a subsystem of LOFAR and look ...
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...
23 August 2019
Energetic eruption helps astronomers peer deep within Jupiter's atmosphere
Beneath the swirling skies of Jupiter, a storm is brewing. In fact there is always a storm brewing on the Solar System’s biggest planet; one that while spectacular to see, could strip the spacesuit from your skin with its toxic composition. How do ...
January 2019
Smallsat revolution and AI kick-start nascent EO big data market
... is likely, in our view, to acquire talent and to build a scalable subscription-based business model. Copernicus Sentinel-1 C-Band SAR data being used to map floods resulting from Hurricane Florence in Jacksonville, Florida, USA, on 15 September 2018...
