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MIT's Inflatable Antennae Could Boost Small Satellite Communications

Posted by timothy on from the very-interesting-and-growing-rapidly-again dept.

coondoggie writes "Researchers at the Massachusetts's Institute of technology say they have developed an antenna for small satellites (known as cubesats) that can fold into a compact space and inflate when in orbit. The inflatable antenna lets a CubeSat transmit data back to Earth at a distance seven times farther than that of existing CubeSat communications."

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