Overview The command and data-handling system acts as the brain for the satellite, controlling all the satellite's functions and operations. Courtesy of NASA, some examples of what the system controls ...

Overview Applied Technology Associates (ATA) is a small business with operating sites in New Mexico, Maryland, Alabama, and various Air Force bases and missile testing sites around the United States. ...

Overview Hodoyoshi-2 or Rapid International Scientific Experiment Satellite (RISESAT) is a 50kg experimental earth observing and research satellite launched by JAXA. One of its payloads is the Very ...

Overview Over the course of five decades, TESAT has developed in-depth expertise in manufacturing payload equipment for communication satellites and has established itself as a clear European market ...

Overview Due to various environmental parameters such as the fluctuating solar loading, the materials used to construct the telescope equipped aboard satellites must be considered and evaluated. ...

Overview Transportable Optical Ground Station (TOGS). See Optical Ground Station (OGS). Near real-time data downlinks from aircrafts, satellites, and high altitude platforms via high-speed laser ...

Overview Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) is a spin-off company of the University of Surrey, now fully owned by Airbus Defence and Space, that builds and operates small satellites. Its ...

Overview Free Space Optics provides speeds comparable to those of optical fiber connections with the flexibility and practicality of being part of a wireless network providing bandwidth speeds ...

Overview Spectrum availabilty is a line-of-sight technology approach uses lasers to provide optical bandwidth connections. It’s capable of sending up to 2.5 Gbps of data, voice, and video c ...

Overview Spatial diversity is any one of several wireless diversity schemes that uses two or more antennas to improve the quality and reliability of a wireless link. Often, especially in urban and ...