🛰️ Satellite & Space
Satellite & Space
LEO and GEO constellations, ground station engineering, space-qualified RF hardware, link budgets, and satellite communications.
Topics:
LEO Constellations
Ground Stations
Link Budgets
Space-Qualified Hardware
SatCom
Orbital Mechanics
Articles
Satellite & Space
Deep Space / Link Budgets
Artemis II and the RF Engineering Behind Deep Space Communications
A technical look at the S-band and Ka-band systems keeping Artemis II connected to Earth at lunar distance.
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LEO / Ground Stations / Supply Chain
LEO Mega-Constellations and the Ground Segment Bottleneck
What 50,000+ LEO satellites mean for ground station RF hardware demand, the V-band transition, and domestic manufacturing capacity.
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Ka-Band / Link Budgets
Ka-Band Rain Fade Mitigation for Satellite Ground Stations
ITU rain models, adaptive coding, uplink power control, site diversity, and the RF hardware for 99.9% link availability.
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Qualification / Radiation / Outgassing
Space-Qualified RF Components: Radiation Hardening and Flight Heritage
What makes an RF component space-qualified. TID, SEE, outgassing, thermal cycling, and the path to flight heritage.
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