Catalog

Technical programme

IAC-16 — 67th International Astronautical Congress

B2. SPACE COMMUNICATIONS AND NAVIGATION SYMPOSIUM

This symposium examines development in technology, applications and systems as they relate to fixed and mobile communication services, satellite braodcasting, position determinination, navigation and timing, and interactive multimedia provisioning.

Coordinator

Otto Koudelka
Joanneum Research — Austria

Manfred Wittig
European Space Agency (ESA) — The Netherlands

B2.1. Fixed and Broadcast Communications

Advances in Fixed and Broadcast Satellite Systems will be presented including Ku and Ka band multi-beam high throughput systems, VSAT and radio/television direct to users applications.

Co-Chair

Robert D. Briskman
Sirius XM Radio — United States

Desaraju Venugopal
Devas Multimedia Pvt. Ltd. — India

Rapporteur: Laszlo Bacsardi
Hungarian Astronautical Society (MANT) — Hungary

B2.2. Mobile Satellite Communications and Navigation Technology

New and emerging technologies for land-mobile, aeronautical and maritime applications (covering different frequency bands), for personal satellite communications and for navigation will be presented.

Co-Chair

Joe M. Straus
The Aerospace Corporation — United States

Jean-Paul Aguttes
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) — France

Rapporteur: Peter Buist
European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) — The Netherlands

B2.3. Advanced Satellite Services

The communications, broadcast and navigation transmissions from satellites are used to provide services to users. Advanced services and applications will be presented including global internet, 4K and 3D video, data file compression, autonomous vehicle navigation and rural tele-education as well as tele-medicine.

Co-Chair

Eva Maria Aicher
HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH — Germany

K.R. Sridhara Murthi
NIAS — India

Rapporteur: Enrique Pacheco Cabrera
Incomspace — Mexico

B2.4. Space-Based Navigation Systems and Services

New and emerging systems for satellite-based position, navigation and timing will be presented, including end user applications.

Co-Chair

Rita Lollock
The Aerospace Corporation — United States

Kristian Pauly
OHB System — Germany

Rapporteur: Norbert Frischauf
TU Graz — Austria

B2.5. Near-Earth and Interplanetary Communications

Systems with relative motion between space and ground systems, in both near-Earth and interplanetary environments, will be discussed with particular emphasis on unique concepts, techniques and technologies.

Co-Chair

Manfred Wittig
European Space Agency (ESA) — The Netherlands

Ramon P. De Paula
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) — United States

Rapporteur: Dipak Srinivasan
The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory — United States

B2.6. Advanced Technologies for Space Communications and Navigation

Future promising space communication and navigation technologies will be presented, as applied to existing and developing systems. The technologies discussed in this Session cover the whole range of those applicable to constellations of micro- or nano satellites, all the way up to those earmarked for large high throughput satellites.

Co-Chair

Edward W. Ashford
Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) — United States

Elemer Bertenyi
Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute — Canada

Rapporteur: Nader Alagha
ESA — The Netherlands

B2.7. Advanced Space Communications and Navigation Systems

Advanced satellite-based communication and navigation systems, including their architecture, infrastructure and applications.

Co-Chair

Morio Toyoshima
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) — Japan

Amane Miura
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) — Japan

Rapporteur: Giovanni B. Palmerini
Sapienza University of Rome — Italy

B2.8-GTS.3. Space Communications and Navigation Global Technical Session

A Global session to present and discuss developments in a wide range of satellite communication topics, including fixed, mobile, broadcasting, and data relay technologies and services, as well as those for satellite based position determination, navigation, and timing. Both Earth orbital and interplanetary space communications topics can be addressed. This session is co-sponsored by the Space Communications and Navigation Committee and the Workforce Development/Young Professionals Programme Committee.

Co-Chair

Edward W. Ashford
Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) — United States

Kevin Shortt
Airbus Defence & Space — Germany

Rapporteur: Stephanie Wan
Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) — United States

B2.IP. Interactive Presentations

Authors with an abstract accepted for an interactive presentation will be asked to prepare slides and display them for the duration of the congress on plasma screens. Authors will be assigned to interactive sessions in which they must be near the plasma screens to engage in interactive discussions with other congress attendees.

Coordinator

Otto Koudelka
Joanneum Research — Austria

Manfred Wittig
European Space Agency (ESA) — The Netherlands