SJR


Space Japan Review 4 - 5

No.61 April / May 2009



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Contents

Cover Page

Satellite 2009 Conference & Exhibit


Interview with CEO
John Celli
President and Chief Operating Officer, Space Systems/Loral


In our interview, Space Systems Loral President and Chief Operating Officer, Mr. John Celli speaks passionately about his business strategies for international satellite communications and has introduced his future dream with enthusiastic manner for the development of reliable and cost effective satellite systems and more ...


Conference Report 2
Report of ICSOS2009

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

International Conference on Space Optical Systems and Applications 2009 (ICSOS2009) was held in Miraikan (National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation) from February 4 to 6, 2009. This conference had the following objectives: (1) to provide a forum for discussion on the realization and demonstration of space optical technologies including terrestrial optical and terahertz frequency technologies that are already used or applicable in the future and (2) to build a community regarding these fields. This conference was organized by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Japan. This report describes the results of the ICSOS2009.


Report
Commercial satellites get bigger and smaller

Marco Caceres, Teal Group

This article was reprinted in Japanese with the permission of Aerospace America.


Satellite System F6 Divide and Conquer
Commercial satellites get bigger and smaller

J. R. Wilson

This article was reprinted in Japanese with the permission of Aerospace America, vol. 47, no. 2, pp.30-37, Feb. 2009.


Selected Paper
Initial Performance of an Onboard Packet Switch for High-Data-Rate Mobile Satellite Communications (in Japanese)

S. Taira, S. Yamamoto, S. Kozono, and M. Yoneda

Please see the Japanese pages of "Space Japan Review" for the Japanese articles.





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