session 4

Title

Small Satellites Potential for Future Integrated Applications and Services

Description

Small satellite missions in the different disciplines and with new partnership models including earth observations are enabling services that are now a familar part of the commercial and government sector. Data from space missions are collected and distributed through space and ground-based systems. The goal of an integrated system is to provide the right information at the right place and at the right time in a cost-effective manner. Including a space-based element in an integrated application may enable that application or provide a unique and powerful enhancement to the services provided. This session seeks contributions that address new satellite missions, instruments, lessons learned, or plans for future small satellites, instruments, or missions. Contributions that address the need to go beyond the traditional mission oriented (or vertical) organization and provide a service that integrates information from ground and space-based sources (the horizontal or distributed domain) are particularly encouraged.

Date

2009-10-14

Time

10:00

Room

Technical Session #1

IPC members

• Chairman: Prof. Amnon Ginati, European Space Agency (ESA), The Netherlands;

• Chairman: Dr. Larry Paxton, The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, United States;

• Rapporteur: Prof. Klaus Briess, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany;