Direct link to video the article is about: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WdLV3YRMvw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WdLV3YRMvw</a><p>Curious Droid is an incredible channel. Highly recommend checking him out if you have even a mild interest in aerospace tech.<p>He explains things clearly and concisely and doesn't try to become a cult of personality like many other YouTubers. Just a wealth of well-explained interesting information.
The part I worked on was monitoring the effects of the sun on satellite communication (disruption of the ionosphere - called scintillation).<p>This was about a decade ago, but I used an FPGA and GNU Radio which was really quite cool! Especially as a post-sophomore intern.
I thought this was going to be about the HARP Project: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP</a>