Birds-4 BIRDS4 Project, Japan The project is led by Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan […]
Category: SATELLITES
As reflective satellites fill the skies, students are making sure astronomers can adapt
As satellites crawl across the sky, they reflect light from the sun back down to […]
A possible French Missile test over the Gulf of Biscaye on April 10-11 [UPDATED]
click map to enlargeAn odd Navigational Warning has appeared, for “space debris” along a 420-km […]
Status of active Birds4 Satellites .
TSURU 4k8 FSK active JG6YMX GuaraniSat-1 active JG6YMZ Maya-2 unknown Tausat-1 9k6 BPSK active RSP-001 […]
Compact QKD system paves the way to cost-effective satellite-based quantum networks
Researchers report an experimental demonstration of a space-to-ground quantum key distribution (QKD) network using a […]
Russian ICBM test launch (Topol?) from Kapustin Yar seen from the Middle East
click to enlargeOn 12 April 2024 near 16:00 UTC, the Russian Armed Forces test-fired an […]
NADER’s Satellite Blog: FodTrack
The world’s best beloved real time satellite tracking system! It was in 1992, and I […]
MICROSCOPE mission presents most precise test of general relativity’s weak equivalence principle
In new studies published in Physical Review Letters and a special issue of Classical and […]
Manoeuver moments of the North Korean reconnaissance satellite Malligyong-1
click image to enlargeEarlier this year, I blogged about the detection of a series of […]
NOAA-2 returning from the dead
A few days ago, a long-time amateur radio satellite watcher Scott Tilley announced on Twitter […]