October 2025
Satellite technology - from operational challenges to strategic opportunities
... related to orbit determination, orbit dynamics, re-entry prediction and visibility computations in Ansys Government Initiative’s (AGI) software. Jim has worked in the field of satellite dynamics and operations since 1986. He holds three US patents...
09 January 2019
New self-driving rovers being tested for Mars
...’ approach so that sensors can be installed and removed easily according to the mission requirements at hand. The new software systems were developed by companies and universities from around the UK including, Thales Alenia Space, Scisys, King...
March 2015
Ka-band satellite communication and lowering the price of VSATs
.... This could be achieved by moving from the sales model (selling the software as part of NMS to broadband internet service providers) to the ‘software as service’ model (charging based on traffic used by customers). The latter model combines the...
March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
... of the cheapest possible radio stations, working in amateur frequencies and based on open hardware and open software is best suited. Software-defined radio technologies (SDR) can be used for high-frequency sections and 3D-printing – for antenna...
March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
... Received data must be processed. Hence the development of software aimed at high-speed (including on-board) processing of large... will cause a quantum leap, when the development of software services will become a priority for retaining a company’s ...
October 2015
Finding Earth-like worlds: the tale of how Kepler-452b was discovered
... was reviewing the results of a test run of new analysis software and it had identified a planet that was 1.1 Earth radii, ... features coming out. We have 7 scientific programmers, 5 software engineers, 4 operators, and all of the development staff ...
