NASA will close the "holes" in space
Now, to receive data from the Earth, the spacecraft must be within the radius of the ground station, and due to the high speeds with which the satellites move in orbit, the window for communication is seriously limited. This is a serious inconvenience to researchers, and requires careful planning of transfers. Scientists at NASA, together with telecommunications company ATLAS Space Operations, intend to rectify the situation using a system of mobile orbital transmitters.
The idea is simple - if you need to send information, a repeater satellite is deployed in the right place, which is a system of a microcomputer that stores information in case of failures, and four five-kilogram antennas. To work, the device requires only a power source and Internet access. An extremely important function of this system is its ability to simultaneously work with multiple satellites at once.
Now the system is undergoing initial tests and, according to ATLAS developers, a number of improvements will be required. However, in the future it will have to provide efficient and high-quality data transmission where NASA does not have ground stations. The success of the project will positively affect the reliability of the transmission of signals into space, as well as the safety of data on their results, thanks to the ability of transmitters to store copies of information.
The idea is simple - if you need to send information, a repeater satellite is deployed in the right place, which is a system of a microcomputer that stores information in case of failures, and four five-kilogram antennas. To work, the device requires only a power source and Internet access. An extremely important function of this system is its ability to simultaneously work with multiple satellites at once.
Now the system is undergoing initial tests and, according to ATLAS developers, a number of improvements will be required. However, in the future it will have to provide efficient and high-quality data transmission where NASA does not have ground stations. The success of the project will positively affect the reliability of the transmission of signals into space, as well as the safety of data on their results, thanks to the ability of transmitters to store copies of information.
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