all about satellite communications
It might be a week or so before my next post as I’m about to depart from the connected world for a bit. Internet availability in Borneo is expected to be patchy – that’s why they’ll benefit from more satellite communications.
If I manage to survive the jungle, the mosquitoes, leeches, snakes,spiders and the occasional Orang-utan I hope to surface eventually in Singapore.Then immediately travelling on to colder climes.
After having made some 6,000 flights I never really want to see [Read more…]
Well spotted. The internal photo isn’t a picture of the Space Shuttle. It’s one of the European Space Agency‘s (ESA) first astronauts, Wubbo Ockels, inside the ESA Spacelab D1 in the Shuttle’s cargo bay (both pictures are courtesy of and copyright ©NASA).
ESA’s first astronaught was Ulf Merbold flying in Spacelab on STS-9.
I’m writing this piece now because today is to be the very last flight of a space shuttle. As I type, the launch is scheduled for about 5 hours’ time, weather at Cocoa Beach permitting.
Spacelab was developed in parallel and in conjunction with NASA’s space shuttle to be the orbiting laboratory in the Shuttle’s cargo bay, as a follow-on for Skylab and prior to the ISS (International Space Station).
The Spacelab programme was run from ESA’s ESTEC facility (European Space Technology Centre) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. I worked at ESTEC all through the 1970s – not on Spacelab but on different communications satellites. [Read more…]
From 1st October 2011 the specifics of the next four paragraphs in italics no longer apply, following the move to this new https://satellitespy.net website. The rest do – because I can’t change history!
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I remember once carrying out some antenna pattern tests on a geostationary communications satellite 36,000 km up and located [Read more…]
The 37th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC) and its Colloquium, one of the most influential technical conferences on satellite communications systems, will be held in Okinawa, Japan from Tuesday October 29th through Friday November 1st, 2019. The Colloquium The first day, Tuesday, October 29th, is dedicated to the Colloquium which is entitled Disruptive Expansion of Space Laser […]
Space Communications, Navigation and Earth Observation Systems in the 5G Era 37th ICSSC ConferenceProgram The 37th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC) and its Colloquium, one of the most influential technical conferences on satellite communications systems, will be held in Okinawa, Japan from Tuesday October 29th through Friday November 1st, 2019. The first day, Tuesday, October 29th, is […]
The following press release issued on 17th November 2015 concerns my appointment by the AIAA Communications Systems Technical Committee (CMSTC) as Chair of their Media Relations subcommittee: To fulfil the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ (AIAA) vision and mission and live up to the words “Shaping the Future of Aerospace”, the Institute’s strategic imperatives […]
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