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...
January 2020
Satellite-based IoT - the race is on
...GEO and LEO satellite operators share the same Ku-/Ka-band frequency band. With frequency sharing, optimising the use of ...spectrum, LEO satellites crossing the equator have to change bands to avoid interfering with the GEO satellite. Once they...
October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
...satellite system). Tianhui 2 satellites are believed to operate in the X-band and have a resolution of 3 m. The first group of two... satellite. The satellite (2,700 kg) was equipped with an L-band SAR system with two working modes with 5 m and 20...
April 2024
Agencia Espacial Española – Spain’s future assurance
... 2 (Deep Space Antenna 2), near Madrid, Spain. It hosts a 35 m antenna with transmission and reception in X-band and reception in K-band and Ka-band. It provides routine support to deep-space missions including Mars Express, Gaia, BepiColombo, Solar...
10 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...
