Speaker Discusses Satellite Technology

Roke Manor Research Limited (RMR) hosted the chapter's February meeting. One of RMR's leading consultants in the space field, Dr. Howard Tripp, gave a presentation on emerging satellite technology that is currently largely driven academically, but which has the potential to have real impact in the defense domain for sensing and communications. For the benefit of those not well versed in the field, Tripp included an eye-opening primer on the basics of satellite orbits and the existing military uses of satellites before describing the emergence of CubeSat nano-satellites, including the recently announced UKube-1 commercially-based program, which offers to provide command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance capabilities at orders of magnitude less cost than conventional satellites.

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