Collaborate Disseminate
Starlink has been making tremendous progress towards providing world-wide access to broadband Internet access, but there are a number of downsides to satellite-based internet such as the cluttering of low-Earth …read more Continue reading Networking With Balloons
In a world where it seems like everyone’s face is glued to a device screen, the idea that wireless service might be anything other than universal seems just plain silly. …read more Continue reading Swarm vs. Iridium: Which Satellite IoT Service is Right for You?
Looks like we might have been a bit premature in our dismissal last week of the Sun’s potential for throwing a temper tantrum, as that’s exactly what happened when a …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 3, 2022
Join us on Wednesday, June 2 at noon Pacific for the Satellite Comms Hack Chat with Paul Marsh! All things considered, space isn’t that far away; you could drive the …read more Continue reading Satellite Communications Hack Chat
Geosynchronous satellites, girdling the Earth from their perches 36,000 km above the equator, are remarkably useful devices. Depending on where they’re parked, they command views of perhaps a third of the globe at a time, making them perfect communications relays. But as [James Pavur] points out in his DEF CON …read more
Continue reading Eavesdropping on Satellites for Fun and Profit
Amateur radio operators like to say that working a contact in space can be done with a simple handheld transceiver and a homemade antenna. And while that’s true, it’s true only for low Earth orbit satellites such as the ISS. If you want to reach a satellite in geosynchronous orbit …read more
Continue reading A Hybrid Helical Antenna for the Es’hail-2 Geosynchronous Repeater
No matter what you think of Elon Musk, it’s hard to deny that he takes the dictum “There’s no such thing as bad publicity” to heart. From hurling sports cars into orbit to solar-powered roof destroyers, there’s little that Mr. Musk can’t turn into a net positive for at least …read more
Join us on Wednesday, October 30 at noon Pacific for the SatNOGS Update Hack Chat with Pierros Papadeas and the SatNOGS team!
Ever since the early days of the Space Race, people have been fascinated with satellites. And rightly so; the artificial moons we’ve sent into orbit are engineering marvels,