session 7

Title

Advances in Space-based Communication Technologies

type

oral

Description

This session is focused on all aspects of advanced spacecraft and Earth station communications technologies for space-based communications, as applied to both existing and future systems. It addresses technologies ranging from those used in nano satellites to those applicable to large, high throughput satellites as well as to extraterrestrial space communications. It covers – among others - communications subsystem design, modulation and coding, propagation, power amplifiers, digital payload technologies including onboard processing and adaptive transmit technologies, inter-satellite link technology, antennas including phased array, plasma and microstrip patch antenna array design, and all other technology relevant to space communications.

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Dr. Enrique Pacheco Cabrera, Incomspace, Mexico;

• Co-Chair: Ms. Eva Fernandez Rodriguez, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Spain;

• Rapporteur: Mr. Elemer Bertenyi, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute, Canada;