{"id":197164,"date":"2024-10-07T09:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/simple-shift-could-make-low-earth-orbit-satellites-high-capacity"},"modified":"2024-10-07T09:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T14:22:23","slug":"simple-shift-could-make-low-earth-orbit-satellites-high-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/simple-shift-could-make-low-earth-orbit-satellites-high-capacity","title":{"rendered":"Simple Shift could make Low Earth Orbit Satellites High Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/simple-shift-could-make-low-earth-orbit-satellites-high-capacity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have invented a technique that enables low Earth orbit satellite antennas to manage signals for multiple users at once, slashing costs and simplifying designs for communication satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Low-orbit satellites could soon offer millions of people worldwide access to high-speed communications, but the satellites\u2019 potential has been stymied by a technological limitation \u2013 their antenna arrays can only manage one user at a time.<\/p>\n<p>The one-to-one ratio means that companies must launch either constellations of many satellites, or large individual satellites with many arrays, to provide wide coverage. Both options are expensive, technically complex, and could lead to overcrowded orbits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have invented a technique that enables low Earth orbit satellite antennas to manage signals for multiple users at once, slashing costs and simplifying designs for communication satellites. Low-orbit satellites could soon offer millions of people worldwide access to high-speed communications, but the satellites\u2019 potential has been stymied by a technological limitation \u2013 their antenna [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}