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...
March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
... to integrate an agile ADCS system, high performance S-band downlink and a more robust avionics architecture for a longer...lifetime. The use of a high-speed payload datalink and S-band downlink allow the user to receive more image data on ground...
