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...
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...
