The modern-age adage “work smarter, not harder” stresses the importance of not only working to produce, but also making efficient use of resources. And it’s not something that supercomputers currently do well all of the time, especially when it comes to managing huge amounts of data. But a team of researchers in the Department of…
First Amateur Radio in Geosynchronous Orbit Will Aid Disaster Communications
Researchers at the Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology are preparing to send an amateur radio transponder into a geosynchronous orbit in 2017. “Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, a new ham band will be available for the Americas,” said Robert McGwier, a research professor…