February 2019
European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection
... data (30 minutes versus 70 minutes for breakthrough). Local mission - all instruments data will be direct-broadcast via x-band in real time which allows reception via a 3 m antenna and user station with suitable processing L1/2 S/W, allowing the...
July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
...including ESA in Europe, have developed limited capabilities of their own and some commercial satellite operators have banded together under the umbrella of the Space Data Association to set up an information system dedicated to avoiding interference...
October 2019
Reusability is key to expanding future space launch business
... to video, and then cable head-end distribution to direct-to-home satellite television (DTH). It started with big C-band backyard antennas, which cost up to US$5000 and had to be installed by specialist contractors. Then encryption happened and the...
January 2020
Discipline - a formula for success in the Earth observation market EO sector
..., who must find a cost-effective spectrum solution that provides maximum throughput at minimum cost. Meanwhile, existing bands are becoming overcrowded, limiting capacity for additional downlinked data, and new, yet undefined, applications such...
April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
... day and night and that its intensity may not only impede radio astronomical observations in the bands affected, but may even damage the detectors which are designed to receive extremely faint natural sources...
April 2020
Spaceport Cornwall – from protests to sustainability
... environmental group Extinction Rebellion at the Cornwall Council meeting. Sustainable goals The word ‘sustainability’ is everywhere and is banded about in all industries and the media. But how can a Spaceport even consider this, and what...
