October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
... intelligence (e.g. counting the number of cars of a parking lot). There is a real hunger for data, in all sorts of spectral bands, work scale, revisit cycle, etc. Spatial resolution down to half a metre is now mainstream, the limit being...
October 2017
Exploring Jupiter’s icy moons
... is powered by batteries and 97 m2 of solar arrays, providing 840 W at Jupiter at the end of mission. The spacecraft communicates in X and Ka bands through its high-gain and medium gain antennas, also used for radio-science investigations. The...
September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
... low-cost satellites to offer ubiquitous coverage to devices around the world via a secure low-cost, low band-width connectivity platform designed for machine-to-machine (M2M) data exchange. The company’s core expertise lies...
February 2018
Growth drivers, requirements and threats in the smallsat industry
... study also predicts that commercial satellites will most likely aim for the 400 km to 650 km altitude band as this provides the best trade-off between satellite lifetime and initial deployment costs. The preference...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... a whole suite of new technologies never tested before in deep space. This includes NASA JPL-developed IRIS X-band radio transceiver which is about the size of two sandwiches and will call home from 58 million km away...
October 2018
Could salty brines be the key to microbial life on Mars?
... brines have now been either indirectly detected (e.g through measurements of dielectric soil signatures, water absorption bands, or hydrated mineral formations) or directly measured in-situ by Phoenix and Curiosity. So what is it about salty liquid...
