January 2021
What it takes to be a space entrepreneur
... school and business school was working at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). My job was revoking citizens band (CB) radio licenses, but I was in heaven because I was at the FCC. There were no cellular phones, so no way to communicate...
February 2021
Why flat panel antennas remain a challenge
... changes. Testing is further complicated by the fact that these antennas often offer operations of multi-beam, multi-band and multi-orbit. In order to improve testing of FPAs, the industry needs to establish reliable and repeatable measurement...
March 2021
Messier 82’s starburst magnetic highway
... Flight Research Center. The instrument is designed to allow total and polarised flux imaging in five broad bands between wavelengths of 50 μm and 240 μm. Diffraction-limited imaging yields spatial resolutions of 5-20 arcseconds with fields of view...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... shows a strong distortion and large differences in their orientation with respect to the structure obtained in the radio band. This decoupling might be related to the gravitational interaction with the small companion, Messier 51b, but, strikingly...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
... ultraviolet and visible (270–500 nm), near-infrared (675–775 nm) and shortwave infrared (2305–2385 nm) spectral bands. This means that a wide range of pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane and...
March 2022
Smoothing the journey to space with the satellite-as-a-service model
... components. Other satellite capabilities will include three-axis attitude control pointing capabilities, VHF/UHF and S-band transceivers for data communications and diagnostic telemetry. This is not the first mission of its kind. OPS...
