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...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
...being negatively impacted by COVID-19. That said, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officials recently confirmed that the C-Band spectrum auction for 5G communication networks remains on track. A successful auction would inject much needed cash...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... promising avenue. Another method is to see if large patches of a planet collect light in the most energetically useful frequency bands – as is the case with Earth. Either of these would indicate not only that life is present, but that...
