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Bluetooth technology inspires Deep Space wireless array concept
by Guy J Kewney | posted on 27 October 2005
Bluetooth in space? Not quite - but an astronomer has been looking at Bluetooth antenna technology, and thinks it would work well for talking to distant space craft.
According to Nature, Louis Scheffer, an electrical engineer from Cadence Design Systems has published an article in the subscription journal, Radio Science, suggesting that an array of fifty million antennae, 100 to a circuit board, would have double the power of the sort of focused dish you normally need to track deep space probes.
Full summary of Scheffer's article Technorati: Bluetooth, antenna
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