Trends Of Optical Communication

For the social science lens, we will be looking at the shift in the economics for space exploration in the recent years.

Americans love the idea of space and staring up at the stars. They are driven to explore and discover what man does not know, and the spirit of exploration inspires society to create and invest towards the possibility of changing the world. Nevertheless, Americans dislike paying higher taxes to fund these programs. Therefore, it makes sense to figure out new ways to expand the way NASA is funded. The

The American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics is an organization for the protection of governmental space programs and the use of aerospace science and engineering. They function as an interest group, influencing the government to pass laws and put policies in place that benefit their needs. Their mission is “to inspire and advance the future of aerospace for the benefit of humanity, to address the professional needs and interests of the past, current, and future aerospace workforce and to advance the state of aerospace science, engineering, technology, operations, and policy to benefit our global society”. The AIAA’s members support many different space-related programs and causes, including strategic missile defense programs,

Through innovation in technology, the space exploration programs of the United States have achieved several benefits for today’s society. Many studies have shown that space programs have encouraged innovation of various

Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is a joint project with NASA and the German Aerospace Center. The idea for this project was to build an airborne observatory and put a German built 2.5-meter telescope inside a modified American Boeing 747. The idea of the project is that because the telescope is high in the sky, the infrared blocking water vapor on the ground will not affect the telescope and the telescope will have a much clearer view of the infrared universe (than if a telescope was on the ground). SOFIA objectives are to study the composition of planetary atmospheres, investigate structure and composition of comets, learn about the interstellar medium, and to learn about the formation of stars. The project began in 1996 with an estimated cost of 185 million dollars and was to be completed in 2001. Unfortunately with delays and setbacks the project was not completed until 2007 and its first flight with the telescope working was not until 2010. The price of the project doubled to about 360 million dollars, and to operate the plane, it will cost an additional 100 million dollars a year. Is the amount of money spent towards this worth the

The space industry has produced many amazing technologies in the past from the development of fireproof material that makes up the modern firefighter suit to new forms of power generation. This is based on the fact that the National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA)

The company has been undertaking partnerships with others in a way to advance new technologies

Copyright is the legal right, to an inventor to perform, print, publish, film, or record artistic, literary, or musical material, and to allow others to do the same. Copyright law was developed to provide the creators and inventors of any works with powerful and effective rights of exclusivity over their creations (Patterson & Lindberg, 1991). Over the past, these rights were almost unlimited. People would use existing developments as if they were their own without any regard of the creator’s exclusive rights. The need to balance and limit such rights arose, and governments established these limits for the general good of the public.

The topic of public domain is becoming increasingly important in the modern day. Legislation once enacted to protect the intellectual property of the individual seems to have been flipped on its head to do the exact opposite. Copyright was originally created to inspire original works by individual authors, inventors and scientists for a relatively finite amount of time. In the modern era, we see big corporate interests pushing for the extension of these deadlines while buying and hoarding copyrights, using lawyers as guard dogs. Doing so infringes on the consumer's right to choose. Such actions prevents fair competition in terms of price, quality, and service for an obscene amount of time. Many famous icons all the way from Uncle Sam to Santa

Interestingly, Bob mentions how in the beginning even the current creators of satellites thought is idea was too farfetched. As Bobs concept gained popularity, many start-up businesses began exploring his idea and trying to make this idea possible. New ventures who were getting involved in the idea realized quickly that it was possible to create such an inexpensive and small satellite. Alongside, larger corporations realized this idea was the future and they are currently investing in the possibility of marketing the high-tech equipment to the world. They understood now is the time to invest in this business, in the same concept Steve Jobs created Apple, the innovation needed more attention and funding. Nonetheless, by moving into a whole new level of technology, I believe there will be many opportunity costs and demands that will shift with the

prepare for OBC’s successful new product launch in the markets of Taiwan (Taipei) and Canada (Toronto). The two satellite teams were created by LB for this purpose and

An alternative emerging approach for licensing music, software, research paper and many other resources on the internet, creative common sharing copyright, is introduced.

This paper demonstrates a fiber optic communications link for aircraft that utilizes wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) to avionics environment to support multiple analog RF signals transmission simultaneous over single optical fiber. This paper investigates the simultaneous transmission of two RF signals over a single optical fiber. The transmission of FM and AM analog modulated signals, and also FSK digital modulated signals, over a fiber optic link (FOL) employing wavelength division multiplexing is determined. We present data from measurements of power loss, total harmonic distortion (THD), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), delay, carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR), and bit error rate (BER).The results indicate that wavelength division multiplexing is a fiber optic technology appropriate for avionics applications.

The field of communications is one in which the technologies are changing on an almost daily basis. Numerous different technologies have been pursued over the past few years; each designed to essentially accomplish several basic purposes in terms of community service. Three of the most actively pursued application include interactive distance learning, video conferencing, and entertainment. While it is the first two, video conferencing and interactive distance learning, which would serve to the best advantage in terms of education and business; it is the last, entertainment which has the most appeal to the largest number of people. The application of various communications applications in

In conclusion, the use of satellite technology, particularly in the use of communications satellites has grown rapidly in the past thirty years. Each day more and more uses for the satellites are being discovered. Feeding this is the rapid advancement of technology that allows the quick implementation of these uses.