Satellite RF communication has come a long way since its inception. At first, it was all beeps and signals in space, but now it’s the backbone of our global communication infrastructure, enabling everything from television broadcasts to internet connectivity. In this article, we’ll take a journey through time to understand Continue Reading
FRBs have been detected…..again
An international team led by Chinese astronomers has discovered a new type of fast radio burst, brief but bright flashes in the expanding universe that mysteriously keep exploding about once every 10 to 15 minutes. Persistent fast radio burst named FRB 20190520B was discovered on May 20, 2019 by Niu Chenhui, a post-doctoral fellow at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy Continue Reading
GOES-18 Sends Back First Stunning Imagery of Earth.
May 11, 2022, NOAA shared the first images of the Western Hemisphere from its GOES-18 satellite. The satellite’s Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument recently captured stunning views of Earth. GOES-18, NOAA’s newest geostationary satellite, launched on March 1. The ABI views Earth with sixteen different channels, each measuring energy at different wavelengths along the Continue Reading
Harris Awarded $284 Million Contract Extension for GOES-R Ground Segment
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded Harris Corporation a three-year, $284 million contract extension for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series (GOES-R) ground segment. This extension aimed to modernize the ground-computing infrastructure, reduce the IT footprint, and lay the foundation for future migration to cloud technologies. It extended Continue Reading
Full global ADS-B coverage is now a reality !
We all have heard or talked about the historical disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 and the deepening mystery that surrounds it. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 “MH370” departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport, on March 8th, 2014, at 16:42 UTC with 239 passengers and crew en route to Beijing Capital International Airport, Continue Reading
April 6th 2019 is a problem for GPS!
The Global Positioning System provides accurate timing information to many of our critical systems—including, but not limited to, our nation’s power grid, communications infrastructure, financial markets, emergency services, and industrial control systems, to name a few. It also transmits the correct date and time to a receiver by supplying the Continue Reading
More mysterious radio signals picked up, Origin 3 billion light years away!
A group of canadian astronomers report the discovery of a second set of “Fast radio burst” or FRB’s. For several years these FRB’s have been broadcasting from well outside our galaxy. A high number of these FRB’s have already been recorded with some FRB broadcasting plots originating over the same Continue Reading