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17 Aug 2025 5 minute read 2 comments Investigator515
The GigaHertz bands would help us to achieve true, cable-free, high-speed data exchange.Today’s world is a world of connectivity. We stream our music from remote servers, access our documents via the cloud and even have the capacity to share our work...
11 Aug 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
NOAA-18 is gone, now it’s time for NOAA-19 & NOAA-15 to say goodbye. It’s been a rough year for science, and it’s been a particularly rough year for the National Oceanic & Air Administration's legacy APT satellite fleet. After playing a central role...
4 Aug 2025 7 minute read 5 comments Investigator515
Ukraine would be responsible for producing much of the USSR’s top-tier equipment. We’ve heard lots about Ukraine since the full-scale invasion took place. With this being an information war as much as a kinetic one, there’s been some good, some bad,...
1 Aug 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
Remote sensors would help lay the foundations for mass automation. In a world full of remote sensors and IOT devices, it can be hard to think of a time when we did things in a completely different way from how we do it today. But there was a time whe...
30 Jul 2025 6 minute read 2 comments Investigator515
This ship would be involved in a Cold War era race to recover a sunken submarine. Some of the best espionage tales contain elements that, in some instances, are far stranger than fiction. And today, we’ll be taking a look at one of these interesting...
26 Jul 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
A picture says a thousand words, and these pictures say plenty. Aviation is pretty cool. In mere decades, we went from the biplane to the Jet Engine right through to the Saturn 5 rocket that would help land man on the moon. Over this time, we would s...
21 Jul 2025 4 minute read 2 comments Investigator515
The right antenna will determine the success (or failure) of your satellite receiving station. In this previous article, we took a look at some of the steps we’d need to cover to set up and configure a satellite receiving station that fed data to the...
20 Jul 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
Height was might thanks to the U-2, but the SR-71 had true speed. Sometimes, things become cultural icons without that ever being the intent. And while in today’s world, spy satellites have made the concept of a reconnaissance platform somewhat outda...
14 Jul 2025 5 minute read 1 comment Investigator515
The humble BBS was the precursor to Forums and Social Media. The internet is everywhere today, and we’re now evolving the internet of things, which gives us remote sensors that are able to change the way we tackle certain problems. There was a time,...
7 Jul 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
The RTL-SDR dongle can be a cheap entry into the world of radio. We’ve spoken before in previous articles about the utility that you can get by acquiring one of the RTL-SDR dongles. These cheap USB devices are a great introduction to the world of rad...
