29 November 2019
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget
... an injection of funds, ESA can now move ahead with the early phase development of the six Sentinel satellite systems that would complement the existing arrangement. At present, three complete two...
20 November 2018
Goonhilly joins consortium to drive Australia’s space sector
.... The goal is to catapult Australia’s space industry into a leadership position in several areas including intelligent satellite systems, advanced communications, and earth observation driven data analytics. The research consortium aims to co-develop...
June 2015
Watching over alpine explorers
...Austria and provides an effective, coordinated satellitebased operations control system for rescue forces operating in the alpine region. The system is based on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) for positioning and navigation. Terrestrial and...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
.... This is a very real cosmic danger that could knock out our electric power grids, kill key satellite systems for communications and navigation and defence. This cosmic menace could knock out the time synchronization...
October 2025
High-altitude platforms - the search for an optimised legal framework
... user input to receipt of server response. Compared to the 70 millisecond latency associated with low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite systems like OneWeb, HAPS promises latency times of a few milliseconds (ms). This stands to benefit uses as diverse...
08 January 2023
GPS
... reading, chapter notes and an index. Much to its credit, it even includes a chapter on ‘European, Russian and other satellite systems’. I can imagine that the entire series of more than 30 books looks good on any serious reader’s bookshelves...
