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...
January 2023
Evolving human space culture – reflections on humanity’s cultural potential in space
....” Stephen Hawking, ‘Why Exploring Space Matters’, TEDxLondon speech, 2016 Humanity has the ability and capacity to band together to achieve these goals and when expressed, give testament to the possibility that lofty ideals of an active...
April 2024
Rotation in the Universe
... image, framed by its winding spiral arms threaded with dark tendrils of dust. As well as the usual bright bands of stars, the spiral arms of M61 are studded with ruby-red patches of light. Tell-tale signs...
May 2024
The challenges of satellite communications on the move
... simultaneously receive from both LEO and expand MEO/GEO using a single flat antenna operating in the Ku-band. Another factor that has a bearing on antenna performance, which is not nearly as significant for traditional parabolic antennas...