session 4

Title

Advances in Space-based Communication Technologies, Part 1

Description

This session is focused on all aspects of payload, spacecraft, and Earth station technologies for space-based communications and data relay. It covers applications ranging from those used in nanosatellites to those applicable to large, high throughput systems, and integrated applications and services. It includes modulation and coding, propagation, power amplifiers, adaptive transmit technologies, inter-satellite links, laser technology (as applicable to communications), antenna (including phased array) design, Q/V band technologies, onboard processing, digital payload technologies, security including quantum key distribution via satellite, and other technology relevant to satellite communication.

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Dr. Amane Miura, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan;

• Co-Chair: Dr. Debra Emmons, The Aerospace Corporation, United States;

• Rapporteur: Dr. Nader Alagha, ESA, The Netherlands;