{"id":1569,"date":"2013-04-08T04:56:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T04:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2013-04-08T05:07:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T05:07:16","slug":"iss-communications-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1569","title":{"rendered":"ISS communications upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"

The International Space Station is getting a big boost in communications bandwidth, which will greatly benefit the rapidly growing scientific work going on there: ISS gets communications overhaul to boost scientific output – NASASpaceFlight.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NanoRacks<\/a>, for example, is providing plug’n’play racks to provide low cost experiment power and communications systems for a wide range of scientific investigations from biology to physics. Such experiments can benefit from real or near-real time imaging, measurement data and control access.<\/p>\n

There are earth observation systems going to the station such as ISS-RapidScat<\/a>, which will monitor “monitored ocean winds to provide essential measurements used in weather predictions, including hurricane monitoring”.<\/p>\n

As mentioned in comments here<\/a>,\u00a0 NASA just approved<\/a> funding for the\u00a0Neutron star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER)<\/a>, which will go to the ISS in 2017 to study neutron stars with a X-ray timing and spectroscopy instrument.<\/p>\n

Such systems need lots of bandwidth to be productive and it appears the station is moving to keep up with bandwidth demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The International Space Station is getting a big boost in communications bandwidth, which will greatly benefit the rapidly growing scientific work going on there: ISS gets communications overhaul to boost scientific output – NASASpaceFlight.com. NanoRacks, for example, is providing plug’n’play racks to provide low cost experiment power and communications systems for a wide range of … Continue reading ISS communications upgrade<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology","category-space-science","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-pj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3969,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3969","url_meta":{"origin":1569,"position":0},"title":"Brothers in Texas sending experiments to the ISS through DreamUp program","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Conrad Foundation, in collaboration with NanoRacks, started the DreamUp program in 2012 to provide opportunities for students to send experiments to the International Space Station: NanoRacks Teams with Conrad Foundation on American Express Program to Space - NanoRacks. 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