External Environments as Drivers of Satellite-Based Multimedia Services to Mobile Devices

Paper number

IAC-07-B2.5.07

Author

Ms. Jaya Bajpayee, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/Goddard space Flight Center, United States

Coauthor

Mr. Joerg Kreisel, JOERG KREISEL International Consultant (JKIC), Germany

Coauthor

Mr. Mirko Albani, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy

Year

2007

Abstract

The explosion of digital technology over the last decade has encouraged rapid growth in the personal consumption of media. Video recorders, video-on-demand, and pay-per- view have allowed users to personalize the content they want to watch. The amazing technological innovations in mobile telephony allows for multi-level/purpose use of mobile phone as e.g., organizer, game console, music player, portable radio, agenda maker, camera, video camera and even, television. The stress of modern life to balance the needs of business, personal, and social demands require the average person to make more efficient use of his/her time.  A multipurpose device which utilizes precise time to provide the accuracy and security required by the modern business and at the same time, improves the quality of today’s fast paced lifestyle is imperative to business and casual users alike.

The proposed concept takes advantage of technological progress in satellite-based communication in delivering a variety of services, including in particular, multimedia and time-stamped document transfer to mobile devices.

This paper focuses on the market needs of the ever-growing mobile customer.  More specifically, it by proposes a concept for the development of a commercial satellite-based system providing a basket of services, in particular multimedia and time-stamp services, to mobile devices.  Issues as interoperability, policy, regulatory and other non-technical environments that impact the technical and economic feasibility are discussed.

This work has been performed in the context of a one-year Central Case Project (commercial end-to-end satellite based system) of the SPACETECH post-graduate master program on space systems and business engineering of the Technical University of Delft.

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