05 August 2016
Rio 2016 Summer Olympics Games, Brought to You by Your Local Satellite
... first commercial geostationary satellite, Syncom-3, transmitted the world's first live color television broadcast of the Tokyo Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies in the US in 1964. For the first time in history, viewers were able to watch an overseas...
08 November 2019
MVA proposes 'Olympics on the Moon' event
...propose a symbolic event on the Moon during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, either in 2024 in Paris (France) or in 2026 in ... President of the Moon Village Association, states, “showcasing Olympic Games on the Moon will be for the public a...
July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
... behaviour in outer space. One example is the strange drift of the Russian Luch spacecraft (sometimes called Olymp/Luch) in geostationary orbit that gave the impression that it was eavesdropping on a number of telecommunications satellites. In the...
May 2024
The challenges of satellite communications on the move
... communication links were not available, was television entertainment services. Such relay services enabled coverage of the Olympic Games in Tokyo to be beamed back to the United States for terrestrial broadcast in October 1964. Scaling of satellite...
March 2015
Satellite technology in newsgathering and disaster coverage
..., India and Asia. When it comes to large-scale sporting events such as this year’s World Cup, the Olympics, and other regional sports league coverage, satellite continues to hold the high ground. Satellite is the only...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
..., rocket propellants and (geek alert!) the fact that the Saturn V’s first-stage turbopumps could empty an Olympic swimming pool in 16 minutes. More practically, they will learn the arts of component-identification, subassembly-construction, process...
