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February 9, 2021

The ancient Roman technology that is solving the space industry’s antenna problem

Isotropic Systems has developed an antenna that can handle signals from multiple satellite systems with no moving parts.


Maija Palmer

3 min read

The cost of sending a satellite up to space is about 1/20th of the price it was two decades ago thanks to the arrival of SpaceX and its reusable rockets. But the price of the antennas that would allow you to receive the signals from all those new satellites remains prohibitively expensive.

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