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...
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...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... in Earth orbit, and an increasing number of private companies operate commercial satellite systems, either in geostationary Earth orbit (GEO), where most telecommunications satellites are located, or in LEO, which are widely used for meteorology and...
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...
July 2019
Luxembourg’s space legislation
... very early – in 1991 – under the Electronic Media Act. However, this law was limited to the authorisation of satellite systems and could not envisage that, 25 years later, new forms of space activity would be conducted under the...
