by Paige Fuoco | Oct 11, 2024 | News, Research
Article written by nasa.gov. Credits: NASA NASA’s LCOT (Low-Cost Optical Terminal), a ground station made of modified commercial hardware, transmitted its first laser communications uplink to the TBIRD (TeraByte Infrared Delivery), a tissue box-sized payload formerly...
by planewaveinstr | Mar 25, 2022 | News, Research
Collaborative Satellite Tracking Project Passes First Test at SSC’s Ground Station PlaneWave, along with Baader Planetarium and Andor, has been collaborating with SSC for the development of their satellite tracking ground station over the past year and a half....
by planewaveinstr | Mar 21, 2019 | Advanced Amateur Astronomer, Aerospace, Articles and White Papers, Education, Research
By Russell M. Genet Abstract Automated instrument sequencers were employed on solar eclipse expeditions in the late 1800s. However, it was not until the 1960s that Art Code and associates at Wisconsin used a PDP-8 minicomputer with 4 K of RAM to automate an 8-inch...
by planewaveinstr | Nov 30, 2018 | Articles and White Papers, Education, Research
Officially launching last June, the Student Space Telescope Network (or SSTN) is the brainchild of Ralph Emerson, PlaneWave Instruments’ Vice President of Sales & Marketing; Russell Genet, research scholar and resident at California Polytechnic State University;...
by planewaveinstr | Nov 30, 2018 | Articles and White Papers, Education, Research
The US DoD is testing a new S-band radar space fence at Kwajalein. It should find and track most new objects during their first pass, rather than needing days to months using hit-or-miss “pencil-beam” radars. This fence may find many objects down to 2-5 cm that were...
by planewaveinstr | Aug 16, 2018 | Aerospace, Education, Press Releases, Research
The second annual Conference on Robotic Telescopes, Student Research and Education (RTSRE), held on Hawaii’s East Coast between July 23 and 25, brought a great gathering of astronomers, educators, students, and allied professionals to the storied Big Island, for a...
