19 December 2018
Saturn's iconic rings are dying fast say scientists
...features of the Solar System, but unfortunately these ice-strewn bands that make this planet so distinguishable are in trouble, ...alarming depletion of the ring material means the entire beautiful banded system will be gone in 300 million years said O'...
16 September 2019
First European satellite with AI set for launch
...783 lb), produces 11 images across 11 different wavelength bands for example. NASA’s Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer...a hyperspectral sensor and it collects data in 224 contiguous bands. While this makes for a much more detailed image ...
31 July 2020
Amazon's Kuiper mega constellation gets FCC approval
... earlier application processing rounds so that it could be on an equal footing with other constellation operators vying to operate in similar Ka-band frequencies, however the FCC said it was not willing to waiver the set deadline it had imposed and...
13 February 2024
Thales Alenia Space to provide comms for planetary defence mission
... valuable information about their composition, shapes, rotational states and orbits. Thales Alenia Space will provide S-band Transponder, K-band Modulator and K-band Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier (TWTA) equipment for the NEO Surveyor spacecraft. The...
March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
... Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) for GPM. DPR consists of Ka-band radar and Ku-band radar. Ka-band radar can observe weak rainfall and snowfall, while Ku-band radar can observe heavy rainfall. The sensitivity of rainfall detection also...
March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
... are core elements of the advanced geomobile L-band payload, allowing unprecedented flexible allocation of capacity ... up to 2.8 Gbit/s,and a Q/V band payload preparing the commercial exploitation of Q-V Band, in response to the market demand for...
