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...
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...
