communications systems in photos
Photos: Inmarsat satellite lifts off
Photo The Proton Breeze M rocket has successfully launched the third Inmarsat-4 (I-4) satellite, which weighs more than six tonnes and is the size of a London double-decker bus. The satellite was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan... [20 Aug 2008]
Photos: Ellen McArthur's new boat
Photo On the left-hand side is the media and communications hub. She is packed with sophisticated communications that keep the skipper, Seb Josse, in contact with the outside world as he sails through the most remote regions of the globe. [02 May 2008]
Photos: Lunar mobile phones preparing to soar
Photo The MoonLite orbiter would rely on a MeX propulsion system, seen here, and will be built using the expertise of BNSC satellite specialists from Guildford, who have built 27 satellites to date, with Nasa making the communications module, seen here. [25 Feb 2008]
Photos: Virtual war tests new technology
Photo Falcon, the £200m comms network, is designed to complement and work with other military communications systems such as Bcip5 and the Skynet 5 satellite. Although the geography of the field is not realistic - camps are usually being housed further... [14 Jun 2007]
Photos: The super-brain behind the particle smasher
Photo Francois Grey, head of the IT communications team at Cern, told silicon.com: "The data will come out at a phenomenal rate, every 25 nanoseconds there will be two bunches of protons colliding in the detector. [21 May 2007]
Photos: RNLI floats new pager system
Photo Arqiva designed and built the original RNLI communications infrastructure more than seven years ago. Broadcast and communications company Arqiva signed the three-year contract with the RNLI to source, acquire, test, roll out and maintain the pagers... [02 May 2007]
Re:Viewing 2006: Photos of the year
Photo April 2006: While travelling through France, silicon.com's Jo Best stopped at the city of Caen in Normandy to find out how the city's trial of near field communications (NFC) tech - the largest trial to date - is going. [20 Dec 2006]
Photos of the month - November 2006
Photo With all the fuss about near field communications and RFID, one London football club has started to make use of the tech rather than just talking about it. Our Top 10 Linux kit photo story puts the spotlight on other uses for the lesser known of... [27 Nov 2006]
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