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Register Now: IEEE LEO SatS Space Environment Workshop
This workshop will cover topics to demonstrate what IEEE is doing to understand the carbon footprint of satellites, their manufacturing impact on the environment, etc.
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November 2023 Worshop Available On-Demand: LEO Ground Stations and Ground Station Services
This talk covered the design and operations of legacy institutional ground facilities, with a focus on ground stations, their characteristics and operational aspects.
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June 2023 Worshop Available On-Demand: LEO SatS Space Edge Computing & Onboarding AI
Explore how AI provides paths for new approaches needed to enable the network to proactively adjust to the rapidly varying conditions associated with Space communications.
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Feature Articles
Satellite-Sharing Enables Low-Cost Earth Observation
In August, Oleksii Kryvobok walked through a green and yellow field of sunflowers south of Kyiv, Ukraine, and measured the harvest’s photosynthetic activity with a device on a tripod. Hundreds of kilometers overhead, the EOS SAT-1 satellite, launched by Kryvobok’s employer, EOS Data Analytics (EOSDA), in Mountain View, California, was making the same measurements from orbit.
IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023
Faster and better—or broken and worse? IEEE Spectrum‘s readers gravitated to the extremes in the kinds of telecom stories they read this year. On the one hand, stories about Russia’s satellite jamming operations in Ukraine and stumbling 5G performance around the world attracted a lot of attention from our visitors in 2023.
Technology Spotlight
The LEO Satellite Industry Needs More Engineers
Look up. The odds are good that one or more low-Earth-orbit satellites are above you right now. Some 5,000 LEO satellites currently orbit 500 to 1,500 kilometers above the Earth, helping to forecast the weather, transmit data, and provide broadband Internet to underserved areas.
Amazon Fires Up Its Space Lasers
Kuiper internet satellites will form a mesh network using optical links. A shoot-out featuring thousands of lasers is about to break out in low earth orbit. Luckily, no one will get hurt—the lasers’ targets are the protagonists’ own communications satellites. Amazon has just announced that two of its prototype internet satellites equipped with infrared lasers.
