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Not just switching, you can use all of the beams simultaneously.

We're hard at work on space optical comms at Mbryonics, and hiring right now: https://mbryonics.com/careers/

We use the Celestial Altium Library [1], it's really good for passive components, which make up ~80% of our schematics by count. For other parts we first try to get them through Al…

This book on ADC and DACs was extremely useful to keep in a work project. TI also have good resources [1] https://www.analog.com/en/resources/technical-books/data-con... [2] https:…

ADI has some of the best technical resources in the industry, I have learned so much from them even when not using their components.

The Proba missions are technology demonstrators. The main goal of Proba-3 is to demonstrate precision formation flying [1], which would enable large instruments in space without th…

A spinout from my university, UMag Solutions is detecting UXO and mines in Ukraine using special drone-mounted magnetometers.

Commercial Crew is fixed-price contracts, whereas cost-plus contracts has been the norm in the US aerospace industry. Boeing is the one bleeding money here.

You should look up image sensor dark noise. One way to reduce dark noise is taking an exposure without any light on the sensor, it should give you the fixed pattern which can be su…

HF is 3 MHz to 30 MHz. Yes it does not make much sense, the term is ancient.

Laplace and z-transform are widely used in control systems and signal processing. Both are more general forms of the Fourier transform in continuous and discrete time, respectively…

There's both types of seat arrangements

ESA is an independent entity from EU.