05 May 2016
Contract signed by Airbus, Space UK and ESA to deliver Biomass satellite
...a campaign designed to use passive microwave radiometry in L-band to verify sea-ice forecasts and satellite-derived ice ...electromagnetic spectrum, but this time it will use a P-band synthetic aperture radar to deliver accurate maps of temperate, ...
18 October 2019
Companies unite to reject SpaceX satellite plans
... potential changes to its constellation after the US FCC granted SpaceX permission earlier this year to lower 1,584 Ku-band Starlink satellites from a planned altitude above 1,110 kilometres to one of 550 kilometres. Undeterred, Mitry told SpaceNews...
08 January 2020
New technique on finding oxygen could help find alien life
... JWST will be optimised to look for light in the infrared band of the electromagnetic spectrum. This will allow the telescope to look... and colleagues are looking for also overlaps a wide H2O band in the infrared that JWST can pick up too, however...
July 2014
Defending NATO and its allies from high-altitude threats
... currently hosts an AN/TPY-2, which is a transportable X-band, high-resolution, phased-array radar designed specifically to detect...United Kingdom and Greenland; and very capable sea-based X-Band radar for midcourse tracking. Depending on the origin of...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
... nanometres (nm) to 570 nm for the wavelength] and in two narrow-band emissions lines (Fe XIV line 530.4 nm and He I line 587.7...innovative Inter-Satellite Link (ISL) system, based on S-band RF technology. It allows data packets exchange between the ...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
...the Intelsat New Dawn satellite was unable to deploy its C-band reflector antenna in 2011 due to the billowing of an ...the Intelsat New Dawn satellite was unable to deploy its C-band reflector antenna in 2011 due to the billowing of an insulating...
