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Designing and testing for this environment is a critical success factor for any satellite program. This free online workshop will be held on 13 November 2024 from 9 am - 12:30 pm EST.</p> <p><strong><a href="/workshops/radiations-effects-on-satellites-and-space-systems">Click here</a> to learn more. </strong></p> <hr /> <p><img style="width: 235px; height: 140px;" src="/images/files/images/homepage/wisee-elo-event-site-image.jpg" alt="wisee elo event site image" data-mce-width="235" data-mce-height="140" /></p> <p><strong><strong>Space Hardware Design: From the Idea to a Successful Demonstration in Space</strong></strong><strong><strong><br /></strong></strong></p> <p>This half-day workshop presents practical guidelines and experiences on hardware and system design for space applications and will be held as part of the 12ᵗʰ Annual IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments Conference.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://attend.ieee.org/wisee-2024/program/workshops/">Click here</a> to learn more. </strong></p> <hr /> <p><img style="width: 235px; height: 147px;" src="/images/files/images/leo-site-image-11524.jpg" alt="leo site image 11524" data-mce-width="235" data-mce-height="147" /></p> <p><strong><strong>Available On-Demand: IEEE LEO SatS Space Environment Workshop</strong></strong><strong><strong><br /></strong></strong></p> <p>This workshop covered topics to demonstrate what IEEE is doing to understand the carbon footprint of satellites, their manufacturing impact on the environment, etc.</p> <p><strong><a href="/workshops/space-environment-workshop">Click here</a> to learn more. </strong></p> <hr /></div> <div class="clearfix"></div></div>  </div> <div id="hpR1P2" class="col-md-3">  <div ><h2>Feature Articles</h2> <div itemprop="articleBody"> <p><strong><img style="width: 235px; height: 147px;" src="/images/files/images/homepage/leo-site-image11624.jpg" alt="leo site image11624" data-mce-width="235" data-mce-height="147" /></strong></p> <p><strong>Space-Based Sensor Captures Lightning Data in a Bottle</strong></p> <p>Better lightning data could improve severe weather forecasts and warnings, and could help researchers to understand where hazards will increase in the future—and the associated impacts such as wildfires and need for lightning-proofed infrastructure. A unique optical sensor that just spent two years on the International Space Station could help fill those gaps.</p> <p><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/lightning-map">Read more at IEEE Spectrum</a></p> <hr /> <p> <strong><img src="/images/files/images/homepage/leo-sats-homepage2-71824.jpg" alt="leo sats homepage2 71824" /></strong></p> <p><strong>AEROSPACE NEWS Sharp-eyed Telescope Tracks Satellites During Daylight</strong></p> <p>Astronomers at Macquarie University in Sydney have developed a new technique that makes possible daylight observation of structures in the Milky Way galaxy, potentially doubling available observation time and increasing our knowledge of the cosmos. This advance also promises to improve space safety...</p> <p><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/huntsman-telescope">Read more at IEEE Spectrum</a></p> <hr /> <p> <strong><img src="/images/files/images/homepage/featured-article-image1.png" alt="featured article image1" /></strong></p> <p><strong>Satellite-Sharing Enables Low-Cost Earth Observation</strong></p> <p>In August, Oleksii Kryvobok walked through a green and yellow field of sunflowers south of Kyiv, Ukraine, and measured the harvest’s photosynthetic activity with a device on a tripod. Hundreds of kilometers overhead, the EOS SAT-1 satellite, launched by Kryvobok’s employer, EOS Data Analytics (EOSDA), in Mountain View, California, was making the same measurements from orbit.</p> <p><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/earth-observation-satellites-small-constellations">Read more at IEEE Spectrum</a></p> <hr /> <p><strong><img src="/images/files/images/homepage/feature-article-image-2a.png" alt="feature article image 2a" /></strong></p> <p><strong>IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023</strong></p> <p>Faster and better—or broken and worse? IEEE Spectrum‘s readers gravitated to the extremes in the kinds of telecom stories they read this year. On the one hand, stories about Russia’s satellite jamming operations in Ukraine and stumbling 5G performance around the world attracted a lot of attention from our visitors in 2023.</p> <p><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-stories-2023-telecom">Read more at IEEE Spectrum</a></p> <hr /> <p> </p></div> <div class="clearfix"></div></div>  </div> <div id="hpR1P3" class="col-md-3">  <div ><h2>Technology Spotlight</h2> <div itemprop="articleBody"> <p> <a href="https://wcrc.av.it.pt/"><strong><img style="width: 235px; height: 160px;" src="/images/files/images/homepage/leo-sats-homepage4-71824.jpg" alt="leo sats homepage4 71824" width="235" height="140" data-mce-width="235" data-mce-height="160" /></strong></a></p> <p><strong>NASA Approves Mission to Launch “Artificial Star”</strong></p> <p>NASA has new plans to launch a tiny satellite mimicking a star into space. The goal of the laser-carrying, bread-box-size orbiter is to calibrate telescopes by using the satellite as a pseudostar with precisely known features. The resulting boost in accuracy for these observatories may one day help reveal new details about exoplanets around distant stars...</p> <p><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/exoplanet-nasa-mission">Read more at IEEE Spectrum</a>.</p> <hr /> <p> <a href="https://wcrc.av.it.pt/"><strong><img style="width: 235px; height: 160px;" src="/images/files/images/homepage/cansat-promo-leo-site-image.png" alt="cansat promo leo site image" data-mce-width="235" data-mce-height="160" /></strong></a></p> <p><strong>World CanSat/ Rocketry Championship World Finals</strong></p> <p>We are excited to help promote the World CanSat/Rocketry Championship (WCRC) 2024, set to take place from September 13 to 15 in the beautiful city of Aveiro, Portugal.This prestigious event gathers the brightest minds from across the globe to compete in designing and launching CanSat projects.</p> <p><a href="https://wcrc.av.it.pt">Click here</a> to learn more.</p> <hr /> <p> <strong><img src="/images/files/images/homepage/tech-spotlight-article1.png" alt="tech spotlight article1" /></strong></p> <p><strong>The LEO Satellite Industry Needs More Engineers</strong></p> <p>Look up. The odds are good that one or more low-Earth-orbit satellites are above you right now. Some 5,000 LEO satellites currently orbit 500 to 1,500 kilometers above the Earth, helping to forecast the weather, transmit data, and provide broadband Internet to underserved areas.</p> <p><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/leo-satellite-needs-more-engineers">Read more at IEEE Spectrum</a>.</p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p><strong><img src="/images/files/images/homepage/tech-spotlight-article2.png" alt="tech spotlight article2" /></strong></p> <p><strong>Amazon Fires Up Its Space Lasers</strong></p> <p>Kuiper internet satellites will form a mesh network using optical links. A shoot-out featuring thousands of lasers is about to break out in low earth orbit. Luckily, no one will get hurt—the lasers’ targets are the protagonists’ own communications satellites. Amazon has just announced that two of its prototype internet satellites equipped with infrared lasers.</p> <p><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/amazon-kuiper-satellites">Read more at IEEE Spectrum</a>.</p> <hr /></div> <div class="clearfix"></div></div>  </div> <div id="hpR1P4" class="col-md-3">  <div ><h2>Useful Links</h2> <div itemprop="articleBody"> <ul style="line-height: 1.8em;"> <li><a href="https://cmte.ieee.org/futuredirections/category/blog/">IEEE Future Directions Blog</a></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://bit.ly/ieee-LEOsatellites"><img style="width: 237px; height: 137px;" src="/images/files/fn/email-subscription-button.png" alt="email subscription button" data-mce-width="237" data-mce-height="137" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://ieee-collabratec.ieee.org/app/community/83/"><img title="Access the IEEE Digital Reality Community on IEEE Collabratec" src="/images/files/images/ieee_collabratec.jpg" alt="Access the IEEE Digital Reality Community on IEEE Collabratec" width="160" height="59" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.ieee.org/about/technologies.html"><img class="img-responsive center-block" title="IEEE Future Directions" src="/images/files/images/join-future-directions.png" alt="IEEE Future Directions" width="200" height="164" /></a></p> <div style="text-align: center;"></div></div> <div class="clearfix"></div></div>  </div> </div> </div> </div>  <footer class="hidden-print"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <hr class="footer-separator"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-10"> <ul class="list-inline"> <li> <a href="/" title="Home">Home</a> </li> <li> <a href="/home/sitemap" title="Sitemap">Sitemap</a> </li> <li> <a href="/about" title="Contact IEEE LEO SatS">Contact IEEE LEO SatS</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://www.ieee.org/accessibility_statement.html" title="Accessibility">Accessibility</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p9-26.html" title="Nondiscrimination Policy">Nondiscrimination Policy</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://ieee-ethics-reporting.org/" title="IEEE Ethics Reporting">IEEE Ethics Reporting</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://www.ieee.org/security_privacy.html" title="IEEE Privacy Policy">IEEE Privacy Policy</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://www.ieee.org/about/help/site-terms-conditions.html" title="Terms">Terms</a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="col-md-2"> <a href="http://www.ieee.org" title="IEEE.org" class="pull-right"> <img src="/templates/ieeesitetemplate/images/ieee-mb-bk.png" alt="IEEE"> </a> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <p> <span class="sitename">IEEE LEO SatS</span> <span class="sitetagline"></span> </p> </p> © Copyright 2024 IEEE - All rights reserved. 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