February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... that some sort of cosmic protective engineering might be possible. A deployable magnetic system at the L-1 Lagrangian point coupled with a solar power satellite system might be able to provide a type of shielding that could also transmit solar...
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...
September 2016
Small launcher market survey
... trend of Moore’s Law driving miniaturisation of hardware has created a technological basis that has enabled smaller satellite systems to accomplish useful and operational capabilities. Furthermore, the global economic downturn that began in 2008 has...
November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
... in the 1980s it was allowed for civilian use. With this emerged the generic name of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Russia then developed its own GNSS called GLONASS. Since then China has developed its...
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...
June 2018
Archaeologist of the future
... to put a small statue on the Moon. Resources which we also spend, in a much larger fraction, on telecommunication satellites systems allowing us to channel an ever-increasing amount of data to our smartphones. One can legitimately ask oneself which...
