September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
...Myriota’s core-business is building small, self-contained modules that communicate directly with a constellation of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Collected data is transferred to ground stations where all the transmissions received from thousands...
September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
... global broadband, while Google and Samsung are also mulling similar initiatives. With all these satellites, low-Earth orbit - at an altitude of 2,000km (1,200 miles) or less above the planet - is becoming an increasingly crowded space. When I spoke...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
... of Things (IoT) applications. Some of these are designed to provide low latency (low signal delay) mobile broadband communications and thus need to be operated from low Earth orbit (LEO), with very large numbers of satellites required to provide...
October 2023
Using drones to test phased array antennas
... that is essential for COTM applications. When a COTM antenna is communicating with a satellite in low Earth orbit (LEO) and medium Earth orbit (MEO), the complexity of tracking increases further, making the use of electronically steerable antennas...
28 November 2015
NASA Set to Improve Orion's Heat Shield
...NASA's next generation spacecraft, will take astronauts Beyond Low-Earth Orbit (BLEO) and into deep space. Orion can carry...the craft from extreme temperatures experienced on reentry into Earth's atmosphere. During Orion's Exploration Flight Test (EFT...
09 December 2015
France and Germany Confirm Plans to Launch Methane Monitoring Satellite
... million euros ($266 million), which includes construction and launch of the satellite, three years operations in low Earth orbit, and the ground infrastructure. The launch is expected to happen in 2020 on either a Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket...
