Uploaded March 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Denise Thorsen, the director of the Alaska Space Grant and Alaska NASA EPSCoR programs and a professor of electrical and computer engineering, talks about the necessary steps required to communicate with a satellite. She explains the many languages that need to be coded and some of the differences between them. She presented the talk, "How to talk to a Satellite" on February 18, 2020 in Fairbanks, Alaska as part of the Science For Alaska Lecture Series.
For more information and abstract: https://www.gi.alaska.edu/events/science-alaska-lecture-series/3715.
Science for Alaska is sponsored by the Triplehorn family, Lifewater Engineering, Alaska EPSCoR, NASA Space Science Education Consortium and the UAF Geophysical Institute.
Filmed by Zachary Locklear and Daniel Walker. Edited by Zachary Locklear and Daniel Walker.
Denise Thorsen, the director of the Alaska Space Grant and Alaska NASA EPSCoR programs and a professor of electrical and computer engineering, talks about the necessary steps required to communicate with a satellite. She explains the many languages that need to be coded and some of the differences between them. She presented the talk, "How to talk to a Satellite" on February 18, 2020 in Fairbanks, Alaska as part of the Science For Alaska Lecture Series.
For more information and abstract: https://www.gi.alaska.edu/events/science-alaska-lecture-series/3715.
Science for Alaska is sponsored by the Triplehorn family, Lifewater Engineering, Alaska EPSCoR, NASA Space Science Education Consortium and the UAF Geophysical Institute.
Filmed by Zachary Locklear and Daniel Walker. Edited by Zachary Locklear and Daniel Walker.










