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...
November 2025
Vantage Vigil - Europe’s first operational space weather mission nears approval
... a ‘Carrington-level’ event today could cost the UK alone over £1 billion per day in lost Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) services. “We’re investing £160 million in Vigil because resilience starts with foresight – and right now we are...
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...
January 2020
Apollo girl - camaraderie and discrimination in the Apollo era
... deployment of the first ever space-based communications system. The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) would consist of a constellation of geosynchronous satellites and associated ground facilities, providing global tracking, telemetry...
February 2020
Europe’s role in space standardisation
... develop a set of interface standards to ensure interoperability of the hardware. The European GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) is a big European project potentially leading the way to new applications. Why is it of strategic importance for...
03 March 2025
Blue Ghost lander operations underway on lunar surface
... than 27 GB of data and supported several payload science operations, including signal tracking from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) at a record-breaking, radiation tolerant computing through the Van Allen Belts with the RadPC payload...
