Los Alamos boffins slap blinkers on satellites so we know who to blame in a crash

Extremely Low Resource Optical Identifier no brighter than LED, but readable with telescopes Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have come up with a cheap and simple way for satellites to be identified from the ground using lights to blink out an ID code.…

Feb 21, 2025 - 22:15
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Los Alamos boffins slap blinkers on satellites so we know who to blame in a crash

Extremely Low Resource Optical Identifier no brighter than LED, but readable with telescopes

Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have come up with a cheap and simple way for satellites to be identified from the ground using lights to blink out an ID code.…