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Paul Struhsaker

Dystopic - Science and Stories
The Technology Behind Today's News

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Dystopian Short Stories, Other Fictional Works, and Space/Technology Presentations

New Content:

SmallSat Symposium 2025

Tech Brief:

Technological Challenges of SAR

Rosetta Nebula

Gods Eye Nebual

Technology Briefing:
Technological Challenges of SAR

Lecture:
SmallSat Symposium February 5th, 2025, Mountain View CA

The Lecture Video is available HERE

Technology Briefing:
Status of Electronically Steered Antennas

Lecture:
Satellite Innovation 21-22, 2024, Mountain View CA

The Lecture Video is available HERE

SpaceX Gen2 Satellite

Technology Briefing:
EMP – The Nuclear Threat to Satellites

Lecture:
MilSat Symposium 23-24, 2024, Mountain View CA

The Lecture Video is available HERE

Sattelites Traverse Pumped Radiation Belts

EMP – The Nuclear Threat to Satellites

Technology Briefing:
Orbital Debris: Situational Awareness, Collision Avoidance, and Debris Mitigation

Lecture:
SmallSat Symposium Feburary 7th 2024, Mountain View CA

SmallSat Symposium

ClearSpace Orbital Debris Removal

Technology Presentation:
Vulnerability of Commercial Satellite Intellegence Networks to Hostile Attack

Lecture:
MilSat Symposium October 19th 2023, Mountain View CA
The Lecture Video is available HERE

MiLSat Symposium

US Starfire Optical Laser Test

Russian Krahuka-4 Jammer

Technology Presentation:
Satellite Innovation for Cislunar Infrastructure

Lecture:
MilSat Symposium October 17th 2023, Mountain View CA

Satellite Innovation

Lunar Halo Orbit

NASA Artemis Lunar Gateway

Technology Presentation:
Rise of Commercial Intelligence Satellite Networks
Lecture:
Small Satellite Conference Feburary 7thth 2023, Mountain View CA
The Lecture Video is available HERE

SmallSat Conference

Cpella Space SAR Image

Cpella Space SAR

Technology Presentation:
Tracking and Collision Avoidance Technologies (aka. A Lecture about Junk)

Lecture:
Satellite Innovation October 14th 2022, Mountain View CA

Space Based Space Surveillance

Simulation of Debris in Earth Orbit

Technology Presentation:
Imagery versus SAR for Military Applications

Lecture:
MilSat Symposium October 12th 2022, Mountain View CA

MiSat Symposium

Maxar Imaging Satellite

Capella space SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) Satellite

Shorty Story:

Zahara
Mata Hari meets James Bond with a twist in this short story thriller set in Dubai, the center of commerce and intrigue where the Western and Eastern powers vie for power in the Middle East of Cold War 2.0.

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Zahara - Character Image

Technology Presentation:
Optimizing Machine Learning Techniques for Earth Observation Data

Lecture:
SmallSAT Symposium February 9th 2022, Mountain View CA

Paul Struhsaker SmallSat Symposium 2022

Satellite CNN Machine Learning example

Satellite Image Neural Network Processing

Lecture at SmallSat Syposium

Technology Presentation:
An Overview of Satellite Earth Observation (EO) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Technology

Lecture:
Satellite Innovation Conference 2020

Synthetic Aperture Satellite Radar

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