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...
June 2015
Beagle 2: discovering the lost Mars lander
... surface. All in all, Beagle 2 survived a 400g impact shock. Finally the probe released the lander clamp band before handing over to the on-surface operations software, enabling the deployment sequence to proceed. Surface Operation The...
October 2015
Japan’s H-IIA rocket: beautiful, accurate, and on-time
... use of electric propulsion systems. Under current plans, the H3 rocket will accommodate demand by launching a broad band of satellite masses. Three vehicle configurations will carry satellites weighing from 2.5 tons to 7 tons into geostationary...
