Tag: satellite

Satellite Archaeology

holy shit:

A study of Cold War spy-satellite photos has tripled the number of known archaeological sites across the Middle East, revealing 1000s of ancient cities, roads, canals, and other ruins.

3d printed satellite

Since complexity is free when 3D printing, fixtures and cable routing and alignment of the space bus elements are embedded in the design

it’s much bigger than i had thought, but this is cool

Losing a plane in 2014

all this endless nattering about “flight 370” makes you wonder what the us military really knows. i’d be shocked if they didn’t have the capability to track any object of that size anywhere in the world, but won’t reveal it to tip others off. just consider the commercially available data from skybox. military hardware is typically a few orders of magnitude more advanced.

either way, this will be one of the last times we lose track of something of that size. it’s an embarrassment, really, size of the ocean notwithstanding.

Microsatellite

sorry for the repost, but the size of this satellite is just amazing.

2014-11-20:

This satellite has 10x the resolution of the big satellite with 0.1% of the mass. Satellite imaging is big, expensive and slow. A typical satellite is 6m tall, 5m wide, weighs 3 tons — and costs $855M. What we actually need, is images of the whole planet every day, and the current satellites are simply not scalable. So what we actually need are small, ultra-compact and highly capable satellites: 10x10x30cm

24/7 high res globe

while Planet Labs restricts their resolution to 5m to protect privacy, others won’t, and the age of 24/7, cheap, high resolution satellite imagery is only a few years away.

Satellite startups

the same week we get 2! satellite startups, skybox and planet labs, plus the successful funding of arkyd, which i still don’t understand: why are billionaires asking for kickstarter funding?

Hidden satellites

Lacrosse 5 periodically disappears from view for seconds before reappearing. inspiring some to wonder if the US could actually hide orbiting equipment from them.

this is probably due to metamaterials with negative diffraction.

Satellite prints

cutups from maps satellite imagery.

Google Satellite Test

The Nexus1 phone controlled the onboard video capture. They want to take it to space…. This HTC phone has a better processor than many satellites, and decent sensors and gyros.

Brazilian Rogue TV

I saw it more than once in truck repair shops, nearly illiterate men rigged a radio in less than 1 minute, rolling wire on a coil.