10 March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
...150 Mbit/s on the outbound link, and up to 24 Mbit/s on the inbound link, well in excess of terrestrial ADSL or cable connections. This technology is currently deployed for 30 satcom services worldwide. Many technical features of these new modems are...
March 2015
Satellite technology in newsgathering and disaster coverage
...This is arguable. Nevertheless, news organizations need to do more with less, and the trend is toward terrestrial, public connection technologies like public Wi-Fi and cellular networks. Reliability and quality aside, the belief is that these systems...
October 2015
How to 3D-print a habitat on Mars
...sealed environment with the main habitat. LavaHive is a modular structure for Mars, with central crew quarters connected to 3D-printed sub-habitats. With thanks to LIQUIFER Systems Group who conceptualized the overall layout, derived an architectural...
October 2017
Saving geostationary orbit
... spinning around a roughly constant axis, there is at least a vector that can be used to approach the target. Establishing a connection remains problematic, however. More challenging still are objects which may be tumbling around all three axes...
September 2026
A forum for humanity’s future
... complex architecture of the United Nations. Its purpose is not simply to debate individual global problems but to help connect the many different organisations, programmes and areas of expertise required to address them. The Council itself comprises...
12 February 2019
Fleet Space Technologies hits major milestone with Project Galaxy
.... Project Galaxy is Fleet Space Technologies’ first step to connect millions of low-power, long-range LoRaWAN™️devices anywhere, ...and ISRO — to create its global, low-powered IoT connectivity network. Several Fortune 500 companies and the world’s most...