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Submarine Telecommunication Cables
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My second ever job in STEM was with an RF Lab analyzing orbital line of sight statistics to help plan ground station locations for LEO satellite constellations.
Downlink bandwidth was a huge bottleneck for Earth observation sats.
Here's a primer thread on sat comms🧵... See more

Welcome to space! First contact with #EnMAP has been established 📡. The satellite 🛰 will now be commissioned, its systems powered up & the target orbit adjusted. https://t.co/u7uEBQuR4u
News: @Telesat $TSAT Reports Fourth Quarter and FY 2021 Financial Results. Highlights:
- Consolidated revenue of $758M, -8% YoY
- OpEx of $234M, +29% YoY
- Adj. EBITDA of $603M, -8% YoY
- Adj. EBITDA Margin was 79.6%
- Net Income of $158M, -36%... See more
The Space Investor 🚀x.comPrysmian and International Telecom to deliver Hawaiian subsea cable system
totaltele.comVerizon Innovates in Satellite Comms with Srini Kalapala @kalapalasm: Partnership w/Skylo for emergency satellite comms; expansion from emergency use & limitations; satellite strategy; partnership w/@AST_SpaceMobile; consumer preferences; coverage gaps: https://t.co/pVUCxys4v5
Roger Entnerx.com.@golem cites @ViasatInc email to distribution partners confirming that the company's KA-SAT at 9°E providing broadband services across Europe has been suffering extensive outage since Feb 24 0400Z starting with Ukrainian spot beams. Cause still unknown. US DoD Among customers.
Megaconstellations 🌍📡🛰️🛰️🛰️🛰️🛰️🛰️x.com
SpaceX/Starlink said they would have to reduce the power of their currently in orbit D2C satellites by half in order to comply with the out of band emission power flux density limits. But if they do this, their solution would at best support text messages
https://t.co/Af6kcYe3bD https://t.co/bIp8MjqtZG