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NASA prepares to launch 600Mbps space laser system to replace conventional radio links
2013-08-29 16:05:47| Extremetech
NASA is preparing to launch the Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration (LLCD), a testbed that will use lasers to send and receive data between Earth and the Moon. This will be the first time that NASA uses lasers instead of conventional S-band radio waves to communicate with spacecraft, allowing for massive data rates of up to 600 megabits per second, while also consuming much less power and requiring much smaller antennae.
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Space Applications for Antennas
2013-08-29 15:31:14| rfglobalnet Downloads
This brochure contains information on Haigh-Farr’s capabilities as it pertains to antennas on various types of space craft including rovers/landers, satellites, launch vehicles. These antennas can be found on programs such as Falcon 9, Atlas, Delta, Minotaur, Antares, WISE, NFIRE, ORBVIEW, CNOFS, CORIOLIS, vehicles such as the Dragon capsule, the Mars Phoenix Lander and the Mars Science Laboratory. Haigh-Farr provides State-of-the-art simulation tools that allow import of full vehicle for any of the launch vehicles identified above for example.
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China continues incredible space push with lunar rover launch in 2013
2013-08-29 14:30:29| Extremetech
China continues to hustle for top spot in space, and recently organized a UN meeting on manned space flight. Its ambitions in this area are real, and it wants everybody to know about them. Will the US take note, and step up its own sense of urgency in the race for Mars?
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Space Laser To Prove Increased Broadband Possible
2013-08-29 07:39:05| rfglobalnet News Articles
When NASA’s Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) begins operation aboard the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission managed by NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., it will attempt to show two-way laser communication beyond Earth is possible, expanding the possibility of transmitting huge amounts of data. This new ability could one day allow for 3-D High Definition video transmissions in deep space to become routine.
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SkyTruth Tracks Fracking From the Edge of Space
2013-08-27 18:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: For the past year, our satellite monitoring of infrared data from around the world has detected immense amounts of light and heat coming from natural gas flares in North Dakota`s Bakken Shale. A recent study concluded that 30 percent of the natural gas produced in North Dakota is being wasted by a process called flaring, and the carbon dioxide emissions alone are equivalent to the annual emissions of 1 million automobiles. This does not even touch the unknown air quality impacts from burning fracked...
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