March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
... anticipate and understand threats. Airman Ashley Risk (foreground) and Airman 1st Class Jasper Platt oversee a satellite system procedure at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado. They are space ground link operators with the 4th...
August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
... while at the same time supporting the advancement of fundamental technologies for satellite systems. Poland has the potential to greatly increase the practical use of such systems in the public sector - the main barrier at the inception of POLSA was...
April 2018
Future Cubesat swarms pose significant communications challenges
... R. Radhakrishnan, W. W. Edmonson, F. Afghah, R. M. Rodriguez-Osorio, F. Pinto and S. C. Burleigh. Survey of Inter-Satellite Communication for Small Satellite Systems: Physical Layer to Network Layer View; IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol...
February 2019
European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection
...–2040 timeframe EUMETSAT and NOAA signed an agreement in 1998 to collaborate on the IJPS, comprising two polar-orbiting satellite systems and their respective ground segments, and forming one key component of the global observing...
October 2019
Reusability is key to expanding future space launch business
... of the distance and places where terrestrial wireless simply cannot penetrate. So there is a huge opportunity for satellite systems in the mobile broadband marketplace where growth is currently at double digit rates. The Blue Moon lander, unveiled...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
... is supported by the whole spectrum of existing space assets including the global navigation satellite system (GNSS), communication satellites, Earth observation systems, space probes and even CubeSats. Therefore, the operation of the whole spectrum...
