Pradeep | പ്രദീപ്

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Technical writer by day, at night I mostly try to sleep. Interested in space.

Small drones are killing more civilians than ever before - and we need to act. Here’s my thoughts on what we need to do, like establishing a center dedicated to evaluating and investigating drone attacks, training investigators, and explaining how IHL applies to self-defense against drones:

What Can We Do About Drone Attacks on Civilians? Some Thoughts

Lately, I've been spending a lot of time analyzing, reporting on, and researching the horrifying global uptick in the use of small, cheap, short-range drones to intentionally target and kill civilians...

little-flying-robots.ghost.io

Our measurements reveal an average brightness seven times brighter than mitigation targets cited in FCC filings and peak values over 200 times brighter than the International Astronomical Union’s recommended threshold (V magnitude 7). iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

AST SpaceMobile Satellite Brightness and the Limits of Orbital Regulation

AST SpaceMobile Satellite Brightness and the Limits of Orbital Regulation, Miller, Owen, Campbell, Tanner, Battle, Adam, Pearson, Neil, Tucker, Scott, Gray, Dan, Reddy, Vishnu

iopscience.iop.org

Good conversations on blogs and social media like we used to have in the 2000s now seem to have moved to semi-private WhatsApp and Telegram groups somewhere in the 2021-22 period. Now, they seem to have moved on from there as well. Where have they gone?

BGS ARPIT is turned ON  from 10:52 UTC FEB 4th. The payload will be kept ON continuously for global coverage. Pls submit your reception reports to info@amsatindia.org or vu3tyg@yahoo.co.in Object  : POEM-4 NORAD No  :  62461 Frequency    : 145.870 MHz (IARU Coordinated) Mode : NFM Data