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The electromagnetic spectrum we can access with current technologies is completely occupied. This means experts have to think of creative ways to meet our rocketing demands for data. NASA Johnson/Flickr

5 décembre 2019

We’re using lasers and toaster-sized satellites to beam information faster through space

Gottfried Lechner, University of South Australia

Free space optical communication will allow the same connectivity in space we already have on Earth. And this will provide benefits across a number of sectors.

Should schools be charged large sums to teach students about space science? NASA

29 mai 2018

New federal policy would hike student spacecraft costs, threatening technology education

Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University

Will new communications licensing costs make small satellites so expensive that they can’t be used for student education?

Small satellites are launched to Low Earth Orbit - and then eventually burn up. from www.shutterstock.com

14 mai 2018

Small sats are vital to Australia’s space industry – and they won’t be space junk

Michael Smart, The University of Queensland

So long as small satellites are in low Earth orbit – and most likely they will be – the Earth’s “vacuum cleaner” will clean them up.

One of the Vanguard satellites being checked out at Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1958. NASA

21 mars 2018

60 years in orbit for ‘grapefruit satellite’ – the oldest human object in space

Alice Gorman, Flinders University

When Vanguard 1 – the “grapefruit satellite” – was launched in 1958, its only companions were Explorer 1 and Sputnik 2. Soon it may have thousands of descendants swarming around it.

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