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session 1

Title: Advanced Space Communications and Navigation Systems
type: oral
Description: Advanced satellite-based communication and navigation systems, including their architectures, infrastructure and applications are presented.
Date: 2018-10-01
Time: 15:00
Room: ÖVB 3

IPC members

Co-Chair: Dr. Morio Toyoshima, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan;
Co-Chair: Dr. Amane Miura, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan;
Rapporteur: Prof. Giovanni B. Palmerini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	15:00	SatCom 2025 – The near future of satellite communications in Germany	15	confirmed	Mr. Carsten Borowy	OHB System AG-Bremen	Germany
2	15:15	Electra: Highly Versatile and Efficient Small GEO Platform	15	confirmed	Dr. Marco De Tata	OHB System AG-Bremen	Germany
3	15:30	Flexible Payload Capabilities in ELECTRA	15	withdrawn	Mr. Fabio Curreli	OHB System AG-Bremen	Germany
4	15:45	The Heinrich Hertz Satellite	15	confirmed	Mr. Bent Ziegler	OHB System AG-Bremen	Germany
5	16:00	Ka-band High-Rate Downlink System for the NISAR Mission	15	confirmed	Mr. Michael Kobayashi	Jet Propulsion Laboratory - California Institute of Technology	United States
6	16:15	Improved Throughput Satellite System using Efficient Transceiver Architecture	15	confirmed	Dr. Sara AlMaeeni	Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC)	United Arab Emirates
7	16:30	A technical comparison of three low Earth orbit satellite constellations systems to provide global broadband	15	confirmed	Mr. Inigo del Portillo	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
8	16:45	Free space optical communications : a new solution for very high-speed feeder links of VHTS	15	withdrawn	Mr. Jean-Didier Gayrard	Thales Alenia Space France	France
9	17:00	Study on Alternatives Comparison of Relay Satellite Based on Laser Links	15	confirmed	Dr. Hongyan Xu	Institute of Telecommunication Satellite, China Academy of Space Technology (CAST)	China
10	17:15	Challenges in designing satellite constellation for providing uninterrupted network security through Quantum Key Distribution at a larger geographic region	15	confirmed	Dr. Sanat K Biswas	IIIT Delhi	India
11	17:30	Communication and Navigation Architecture for Planetary Exploration Carried-on by a Swarm of Mobile Robots	15	confirmed	Mr. Marco Carpentiero	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy
12	17:45	The Galileo Reference Centre and its role in the Galileo Service Provision	15	confirmed	Dr. Peter Buist	European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA)	The Netherlands