by Bill D'Zio | Aug 8, 2019 | Stuff in Orbit
One Small Satellite Step For UbiquitiLink, One Giant Leap For Cell Coverage For All Mankind… By Bill D’Zio August 8, 2019 A photo from Feb 2019 of the Cygnus spacecraft as it is leaving the ISS with UbiquitiLink’s payload attached, courtesy of ISS...
by Bill D'Zio | Aug 4, 2019 | Stuff in Orbit
SS Roger Chaffee (Cygnus cargo spacecraft) will depart the ISS Tuesday Aug 6. By Bill D’Zio August 4, 2019 Credit: NASA According to a press release by NASA, the Cygnus cargo spacecraft, the SS Roger Chaffee, will depart the orbiting laboratory Tuesday, Aug....
by Blaine Curcio | Aug 2, 2019 | Stuff in Orbit
Checking In on the LEO-HTS Constellations By Blaine Curcio August 2, 2019 Credit: 2019 SpaceX Over the past several years, as the new generation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) High Throughput Satellites (HTS) has evolved from concept to the early stages of reality, I have...
by Blaine Curcio | Jul 19, 2019 | Stuff in Orbit
Knitting Together an Archipelago using Satellite By Blaine Curcio July 19, 2019 In early July 2019, Thales Alenia Space—a French/Italian aerospace giant—announced that the company had been awarded a contract to manufacture the “Satria” satellite, a 150 Gbps Ka-band...
by Bill D'Zio | Jul 19, 2019 | Stuff in Orbit
Satellite Harnesses Power Of Sun To Navigate Without Engine By Bill D’Zio July 19, 2019 The romantic days of high adventure and ships harnessing the wind may be over, but one organization thinks a new kind of sail can propel future spacecraft. The Planetary...
by Blaine Curcio | Jun 17, 2019 | Stuff in Orbit
The Great Firewall From Low Earth Orbit (part 2 of 2) By Blaine Curcio June 17, 2019 With many LEO constellations in early phases of deployment, it is looking increasingly likely that there will be multiple LEO constellations offering communications services sometime...
