NASA Pushing the Envelope on Spectrum Sharing, NTIA Says
NASA is testing software-defined radio (SDR) and the latest technologies for spectrum sharing on the International Space Station (ISS), NTIA said Tuesday in a blog post. NTIA is promoting spectrum sharing research and NASA shares that goal, installing the Space…
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Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Testbed on the ISS, NTIA said. “NASA is partnering with other government agencies, industry, and academia to use the SCaN Testbed as a unique space-based platform to test new radio communication techniques and protocols.” Since being installed three years ago, more than 2,600 hours of experiments have been done, testing a total of 149 individual communication protocols on the testbed, NTIA said. “Some of the early results of these real-world tests have already been used to determine the types of communications technologies that can be utilized across NASA’s wide range of missions. In the future, spacecraft employing SDR radios will be able to be reconfigured with the latest and most efficient technologies that will allow them to adapt to disruptions and to more effectively share the same spectrum.”