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How do you provide ground station services to satellites?

An important part of the space economy is ground station services. The reason satellites go to space, after all, is often to collect data that…

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How would ELROI let us know which satellites are which?

Editor January 3, 2020 cubesats ELROI los alamos national laboratory orbital velocities orbits pulsars satellites smallsats solar power

Many manmade objects are in orbit around Earth. How do we know which are which? The problem is, we don’t. Not always, anyway. Oftentimes, we…

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Eyes in the Sky: Distributed and Autonomous Earth Observation

Editor May 3, 2019 aerospace engineering Earth observation ground stations satellite constellations satellite imagery smallsats space systems spacecraft systems engineering the space industry

Perhaps the most important result of human space exploration is that it has caused us to better appreciate our own planet. But despite massive progress…

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Swarms of Satellites: Miniaturizing Space Exploration

Editor March 22, 2019 aerospace engineering cubesats FemtoSats interstellar space miniaturization PicoSats satellite constellations satellites smallsats spacecraft

Swarms of small satellites and robots will revolutionize our exploration of the cosmos. That’s the vision behind ongoing miniaturization efforts in the field of aerospace…