October 2023
The impact of weather on Ka-band frequencies
... the probability of any outages from weather. To be able to optimise performance in this way, through design of the ground network, operators need to analyse historical weather patterns. Armed with that information, operators can ensure that they...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
... changes to the infrastructure. ESTRACK deep space antenna waveguide structure. Deep space ground stations ESA’s tracking network (ESTRACK) includes three deep space ground stations, which currently support different RF bands at 2GHz (S-band), 8GHz...
January 2019
Industry 4.0 will revolutionise the space market
... time. This shows that solutions for digitisation, networking and reasonable communication have not yet been implemented ...transform simple value chains into fully digitised value-creating networks. With the digitisation of value creation, not only...
19 September 2019
Annual Global MilSatCom conference and exhibition returns to London
... (CONOPS) for the UK Under Skynet 5 & Skynet 6 Panellists: Commander Phil Coope, Programme Manager, SATCOM and Strategic Networks, UK MoD Wing Commander David Black, SKYNET 6 EC Lead, ISS, UK MoD Dr Michael O’Callaghan, Space Programme Manager, Dstl...
March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
... low-speed data flow with the SC, a wide network of the cheapest possible radio stations, working in amateur...basis of TDMA or CDMA technology, much like mobile communication networks. Phonesat balloon test Mutual re-transmission by satellites in low...
January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... expected water resources. However, this would require a great expense of energy with no guaranteed results. No canyon or valley network was ever observed outside the volcanic provinces of Mars as it would be expected if water/rain was the cause...
