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...
June 2015
Promoting growth at geostationary orbit with a one-stop-shop
...of people operating on the lower frequencies, C band, KU band, and now KA band. When that gets congested people look into moving...up into the higher frequencies. Now there is highfrequency QV band. Broadband was a relatively new market when we started ...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... a flyby of Mars and relay UHF telemetry received from the InSight lander directly back to Earth using an X-band communications link. A launch window for energy-efficient trajectories to Mars opens up at intervals of about 26 months and, in recent...
October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
... orbit, made available to end-users in near-real time, i.e. within three hours of acquisition, thanks to the on-board X-Band Downlink Assembly and a ground system that includes two stations in Svalbard, Norway, and Inuvik, Canada. All...
