10 June 2016
Intelsat 31 Telecommunications Satellite Successfully Placed in Orbit
... minutes after liftoff. Intelsat 31 carries a Ku-band payload for Los Angeles-based DirecTV’s Latin America...the 95 degrees west slot. Intelsat will use the four 69.6-megahertz C-band transponders for its own business in Latin America. Intelsat 31 is ...
26 October 2020
Scientists detect molecular water and cold ‘water traps’ on the Moon
...able to detect emission in the infrared and by examining a different band of radiation, a team of researchers headed by Casey Honniball at the...of H2O and based on the strength of the 6 μm band, the team estimate abundances of around 100 to 400 parts ...
21 July 2021
New balloon-borne astronomical telescope to rival Hubble
...: collisions between clusters of galaxies.” Convenience aside, the telescope is also equipped to take images in the visible-to-near-UV bands (300-900 nm) of the electromagnetic spectrum. The Euclid observatory due to launch next year can only take...
22 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest, July 15-22
...a rigorous two-year-long building process. The complete S-band payload module had been in testing at Thales Alenia Space...satellite services to aircraft flying over European routes, with the S-band spectrum allocated to all 28 EU states, as well as ...
March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
... problem of radio frequency interference (RFI) as many satellite applications and services use a handful of common frequency bands. This has led to a growing competition for spectrum and incidents of both unintentional and intentional interference...
March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
... Russian small spacecraft developers and operators face a number of additional problems. Firstly, access to the frequency range. S-band, typically used by SSC operators abroad, and the de facto standard for these types of spacecraft, is unavailable...
