#spacecommunications — Public Fediverse posts

Big dishes on opposite sides of the world.
Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, UK yesterday, Deep Space Station 43 near Canberra, Australia in 2016
#Space #Radio #RadioTelescope #SpaceCommunications #SpaceExploration #UK #Australia #JodrellBank #Science

FoxConn Satellites? Huh? Oh, wait this strategy does have some logic behind it!

Foxconn launches 2nd gen PEARL-1A and PEARL-1B satellites - core component of its “3+3” expansion.

FoxConn's 3+3 strategy prioritizes three emerging industries—electric vehicles, digital health, and robotics—supported by three core technologies: artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and next-generation communications.

By owning the satellite hardware and the communications stack, Foxconn aims to offer vertically integrated services for the automotive and industrial sectors, including real-time telemetry for its burgeoning EV platform. Boom! https://satnews.com/2026/05/03/foxconn-launches-second-generation-pearl-satellites-via-spacex-falcon-9/ #FoxConn #Space #Satellites #EVs #Communications #AI #Semiconductors #SpaceCommunications #IntersatelliteCommunication

NASA’s recently launched asteroid hunter, Psyche, is designed to give us a look at a body that could resemble depths far within the Earth, where we can never go. But one instrument tagging along for a ride is exciting scientists who specialize in a completely different field — that of space communications. https://arevie.ws/Psyche_KM via @KnowableMag

#KnowableMagazine
#NASA
#SpaceCommunications
#PsycheMission

@danyork Unrelated to LEO satellite internet clusters: are you aware of any work being done to secure long-distance space-based transmissions / internet?

Anything beyond a few hundred milliseconds round-trip starts getting really slow with handshakes and assured protocols. That includes TCP, but also pretty much all secure (TLS, SSL, SSH, S/MIME) protocols in which keys and secrets are exchanged. That might be viable for non-realtime transmissions to a few light-minutes out, but even interplanetary comms to near neigbours (Mars, Venus) at closest approach are likely nonviable, let alone the out planets, or Mars/Venus at distance or opposition.

(Managing round-the-Sun links will also prove ... interesting.)

I've done some casual digging but have found nothing as yet.

I'm assuming a periodic key update / assertion and/or one-time password / one-time pad mechanism might be required.

#InterplanetaryInternet #Internet #Infosec #Space #SpaceCommunications #Security #Encryption